Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...

As part of Zuri Murphy’s urban policy class at Hampton University, she was assigned a question: Do Black people deserve ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

George Adam Keller enslaved a man named Zeike Quarterman in 19th-century Georgia. Keller gave 10 acres of land to Quarterman and his wife, Grace, as a reparation. That land has remained in the ...

The practice of eminent domain has been the source of recent pushes for Black people to receive reparations, or repayment for the wrongs done to them by their state or federal governments. Black ...

In the 1700s, 80 million bison roamed much of North America. They were everything to the people who lived among them: shelter, food, clothing, and ...

With polls continuing to show the public’s deep dislike of reparations, it’s easy to forget that it was only three years ago that elected officials were all in, pointing to what many had quietly ...

These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible part of the nation’s healing process. The historically Black 5th Ward in ...

One day, my mother dialed zero for the operator. As a Black woman living in Reagan’s 1980s era, isolated and economically struggling while surviving physical and sexual violence, she knew could not ...