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Ten years ago, the idea of reparations for Black Americans felt like a pipe dream. But in recent years, cities and states nationwide have launched commissions to study reparations and, in one case, even made payments. Now, Atlanta is joining the ranks of places seriously considering reparations.

What the modern world owes slavery.

Russia will not sign a surrender agreement in the coming years, and Ukraine will not receive reparations from it, Valeriy Chaly, head of the board of the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center and Ukraine's ambassador to the United States in 2015-2019, said on Radio NV on Nov. 9.

The Evanston Reparations Committee is looking to move its reparations fund to a Black-owned financial establishment. The fund currently is managed by Byline Bank, according to Clayton Black, the city’s budget manager. During the Nov. 2 Reparations Committee meeting, Black said the city would be “totally open” to moving the fund, but stated there are a few financial policy requirements the ...

Lloyd's of London, the insurance market, said Wednesday it would spend £52 million ($64 million) on racial-equality causes after a report found it played a "significant role" in the transatlantic slave trade."Black Beyond Data's research makes clear that Lloyd's, which is over three hundred years old, played a significant role in enabling the transatlantic slave trade and economy, forming part of a sophisticated network of financial interests and activities tha...

King Charles III’s recent statements are a reflection of the progress Kenya has made in seeking redress for colonial-era legacies.

On January 1, 2022, California opened up an application for survivors of forced sterilization to apply for reparations from a $4.5 million fund established by a law passed in 2021. The law distinguished itself from similar laws in other states by extending beyond those who had been sterilized under 20th-century eugenics programs to also offer reparations to survivors of contemporary forced sterilization—many of whom are incarcerated people. But, according to a new report from Rewire, as o...

During a visit to Kenya, Britain’s King Charles stopped short of apologizing for his nation’s repression of independence fighters 70 years ago. But the monarch is under pressure because of Britain’s imperial past. Caribbean nations are calling on Charles to dig into his $2 billion personal fortune and pay for the royal family’s slave trading past. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla began the second day of a state visit to Kenya on Wednesday as survivors of colonial-era abuses criticised his failure to issue a full apology or propose reparations. At a state dinner on Tuesday Charles expressed his "deepest regret" for what he called abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans during the country's independence struggle. President William Ruto commended the monarch's first step towar...