After a year of back-and-forth over initiatives to defund the police, D.C. lawmakers are again considering how much of the city’s budget should go toward officers and how much should…
Detroit City Council is moving forward with an effort to support reparations for African Americans. President Pro Tem Mary Sheffield’s resolution, which passed Tuesday without objection, aims to lay out a foundation…
Many things led to the events of Sept. 29, 1969. Ignored requests, denial of rights and silenced voices were among the catalysts for the famous Asheville High School walkout when nearly 200…
Every Congressional session for nearly three decades, the late Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced HR 40, calling for a national commission to study the impact of slavery and…
ALBANY, N.Y. (PIX11) — New York took a tentative step closer toward reparations for slavery on Wednesday. The state Assembly passed a bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Charles Barron, that would…
A North Carolina city has committed $2.1 million toward funding reparations, an initiative it began last summer when it joined a number of U.S. cities which have voted to address…
When Frances Terrell was first approached about participating in a reparations program the Virginia Theological Seminary had been working on, she said she experienced an emotional cocktail of surprise and…
In April 1997, Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Frank Keating signed Joint Resolution 1035 after it passed the state legislature unanimously. This new law created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa…
One hundred years after the Tulsa Massacre, a team of scientists has discovered the remains of 27 people believed to be murdered by the white mob that destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood…
A brand new committee tasked with vetting bills related to racial equity, civil rights and inclusion plans to hold its first hearing at the start of the week A brand…