In Fulton County and elsewhere, committees are forming to explore whether slave descendants are due compensation In 1989, a bill was introduced in Congress calling for the creation of a…

(Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 19 to correct a mistake initially reported in the Carter Development Group’s presentation. According to research conducted for the Cease the Harm Audit,…

Boston is taking a major step towards reparations for Black residents: The city has chosen the group of academics and experts who will be leading a research effort into Boston's role in…

Task force members Maurice Weeks and Executive Committee Co-Chair Lauren Hood both announced their resignations at the body’s latest meeting. About a year ago, Detroit created its Reparations Task Force to research…

KABUL — More than two years after Taliban fighters streamed into the Afghan capital, seizing power here and vowing to cleanse the country of Western decadence, many of them have…

FEMA has secured about 1,500 properties for long-term housing for fire victims but only about a third are in West Maui.  Cynthia and Terry Shibao took temporary shelter with their…

The tiny Caribbean nation has the fastest-growing economy in the world, but the boom is stoking challenges from inflation and a growing wealth gap to the looming threat of conflict…

SANTIAGO (AP) — Romina Cortés couldn’t pronounce her sister’s last name. She didn’t know what she smells like, what her favorite food is, or what she likes to do in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — At least 26 combatants and an unconfirmed number of bystanders were killed in a gunbattle between warring tribes in Papua New Guinea, police said Monday. A…