ABC News Live takes a closer look at Asheville's historic reparations plan. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- More than 150 years after emancipation, the city council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted this month ...

RECOMMENDATIONS. FOR THE HISTORIC STATEHOUSE WITH TRIBUTES TO MARYLAND FREEDOM FIGHTERS LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HARRIET TUBMAN IS MAKING HISTORY AGAIN. LAWMAKERS PUT A REPARATIONS BILL ON THE ...

While the United States has never implemented a widespread slavery reparations program, the tide might be turning as several states and cities push proposals that would benefit descendants of slaves ...

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Note: This program originally aired on Feb. 10, 2025. Reparations for African Americans has long been a sticking point for a redress to this nation’s reckoning ...

The Decatur City Commission unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday to create the Decatur Reparations Task Force. The task force, which will have 11 members, will develop recommendations that will ...

MARYLAND (WBFF) — After a bill to create a Maryland Reparations Commission passed in the General Assembly, it remains unclear if Governor Wes Moore plans to sign it or not. The legislation would ...

House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading the ...

Democratic leaders and activists are taking to Washington, D.C., to push for reparations legislation. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, the distinguished Professor of Sociology behind the book Radical ...

Some say reparations are needed to restore economic balance. In the early 20th century, Richard Givens, a Black man, toiled as a laborer in a box mill in Greensville County, Virginia. He earned $300 ...