Josiah Williams has spent years fighting for a simple but profound idea - that Black Americans deserve compensation for the more than two centuries of forced, unpaid labor extracted from their ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A debate in cities across the country is being taken up Thursday night in Fulton County. The Fulton County Reparations Task Force met for the first time to look at giving money to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations for African Americans held its inaugural meeting Tuesday, launching a two-year process to address the ...

A California task force to study reparations for Black Americans who descended from slaves held its first meeting Tuesday, launching a two-year process that organizers hope will compensate for the ...

While Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was busy crafting legislation to create national historic sites around the country honoring black leaders, he discovered that his own workplace was in need of some ...

A task force studying to make recommendations for slave reparations in Wilmington won’t issue a preliminary report until next year. It was scheduled to come out in May. The delay stems from a ...

California's Reparations Task Force has to answer a thorny question: how to calculate compensation for the descendants of slaves. Kamilah Moore chairs the task force. Josiah Williams has spent years ...