Newsom signed a law last week creating a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery to verify Black Californians’ family ...

The California governor signed the bill five years after he created a task force to study how racist policies have affected descendants of slaves.

Naming the slave trade humanity’s “greatest crime,” African leaders at the UN are pushing for reparations, a debt long denied to Black people. For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been ...

The City of Atlanta has launched a reparations program aimed at addressing economic, educational, health and social disparities. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln learned instead of ...

President Donald Trump has said he is considering offering Americans stimulus checks of between $1,000 and $2,000 from tariff revenues. Talking to One America News (OAN) television network in a one-on ...

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama speaks during the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) In a first coordinated African-led effort at the ...

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, stressed the need and urgency for comprehensive reparatory justice for historical and ongoing harm linked to colonialism and ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

The story of reparations in the United States begins with a short-lived promise. In January 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which redistributed ...

The Philadelphia Tribune hosted its 2025 Most Influential African Americans event Thursday evening. The event celebrates and honors Black Philadelphians who are making a significant impact throughout ...