An Alameda County commission designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started.
Located near Hayward in Alameda County, Russell City was once home to mostly Black, Latino and poor white families boxed out of other Bay Area neighborhoods by redlining and the cost of living. But in ...
Members of San Francisco's reparations task force meeting on their final day on Monday, Jan. 8, 2023, discussing the possibility of an HBCU in the city. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros. Sign up below to ...
I felt like we were kind of misled as a task force in terms of level (of) engagement,' said one member of a reparations task ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A group is pushing for all descendants of slaves in Chicago to have their property taxes waived. New billboards are up on the corner of Chicago Avenue and Austin Boulevard to bring ...
A New York lawmaker wants the federal government to push a $14 trillion reparations measure. The measure is touted by "Squad" member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who wants the federal government to be ...
The search to better understand his roots took Paul Thomas Harper to his late grandmother’s attic in St. Paul, Minnesota. There, among the letters and photographs, he found clues that, once plugged ...
Once the panel is established, it will have about a year to determine what reparations should look like in the city. By Jesus Jiménez The mayor of Chicago signed an executive order on Monday to ...
When Mayor Michelle Wu tapped 10 activists, historians, scholars, and students to study Boston’s complicated relationship with slavery last year, the appointments were hailed as a crucial step in ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the creation of a reparations task force and agenda aimed at addressing historical injustices against Black people in the United States while citing systemic ...
City lawmakers passed a controversial bill Thursday to create a reparations task force in New York City — which could lead to proposals to spend billions in taxpayer money as compensation for slavery ...