White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Trump administration has joined a ...

It’s no secret that reparations have become one of the most debated local policy efforts in the country. Still, around the U.S., local leadership and activists are banding together to deliver what ...

Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitution Ghana is hosting a conference to advance the ...

The federal government on Tuesday asked a judge to halt the United States’ first reparations program that offered Black people in a small Illinois city $25,000 for 20th century race-based housing ...

The Justice Department argued that the program, which seeks to compensate Black residents for housing discrimination, was racist and unconstitutional. By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington The ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this Nov. 25, 2019 file photo, Alderman Robin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2019 file photo, Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, 5th Ward, proposes a reparations fund during a City Council ...

The Justice Department is suing Evanston, Illinois, to stop a first-of-its-kind reparations program that has distributed more than $5 million to Black residents who said they were hurt by housing ...

It’s been one year since Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation that allocated $300,000 toward a study of reparations. Now underway, the Charles Mitchell and George Washington Bush Study on Reparative ...

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations. Lee slammed President Donald Trump's "anti-weaponization fund," and ...