A landmark UN resoultion has intensified the debate over reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, with supporters arguing that recognition, apologies and structural reforms are long overdue. It ...

“Slavery was standard practice throughout human history until it was ended by White people.” This incendiary remark posted by Elon Musk on X captures precisely why our society remains ill-equipped for ...

The UN has declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations. While widely welcomed in Africa and among advocates, the resolution's ...

A new phase in the global debate over colonial responsibility may soon unfold at the United Nations. Ghana has announced that it plans to submit a ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

Although the reparations bill was just one of 23 vetoes issued by Moore, it sparked a firestorm of criticism from fellow Black leaders across the state. Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black governor and ...

The African American warrant for reparations : the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations : an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr.