Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I was born for this—and I know exactly what I’m doing.” Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, ...

Native American reparations are designed to remedy the U.S. government's historical treatment of indigenous tribes, ranging from monetary compensation to land redistribution and recognition of ...

Last December, nonprofit executive director Malik Yakini received an unexpected call. The caller, a woman who resides in California, said she wanted to direct a sizeable portion of her inheritance to ...

*Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome called out white Americans whose families stole land and property from Black Americans post-slavery. “Amazing how white people commit atrocities in one ...

The Olympia City Council is set to discuss city-scale actions from around the country that could provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved African people in Olympia when it holds a June 24 ...