As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action ...

Some African elites benefited from slave trade and colonisation. This must be taken into account in reparation debates.

The last few years have seen a revival of the debate over reparations for slavery and its aftermath in the United States. Despite renewed interest in the topic and the aftermath of the racial ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

The House Judiciary Committee heard arguments on Wednesday that would study the effects of slavery and discrimination in the US and would recommend appropriate remedies. House Resolution 40 would not ...

FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several African countries have erected memorials to the victims of slavery, such as this statue in Senegal [AFP via Getty Images] ...

During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janay Reliford, who chairs the Kansas City Reparations Coalition, spoke at the Black Archives of Mid-America last year. She spends ...

Calls for reparations took centre stage as civil society organisations across Africa gathered in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to demand justice for centuries of slavery, colonisation, and resource ...

Letters: Readers respond to Reform UK’s threat to deny visas to citizens of countries seeking compensation for slavery ...