The estimate comes as a California task force considers how to compensate for centuries of harms to Black Americans.

The city’s board of supervisors moved forward a draft plan with suggestions on how to compensate Black residents for centuries of slavery and systemic racism.

Examples of reparations paid throughout history show that making amends is much more feasible than rich countries today would have us believe.

The city is the first in the country to pass, and begin to implement, a reparations program. Changing laws to undo discrimination is one thing. But will white citizens really be willing to pay for it?

Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

The Biden administration is reviving the legal and moral case for slavery reparations.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.

Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. One of them sued successfully.

In a rebuttal to Mitch McConnell—and possibly Joe Biden—Ta-Nehisi Coates helped House Democrats start a conversation on slavery, racism, and reparations.

Headlines about Nazis could distract from a more pressing issue: current tensions within the EU.

The Democratic Party is talking about both issues separately. They make more sense in tandem.

How should the United States compensate the parents and children harmed by the Trump administration's family-separation policy?

Ta-Nehisi Coates makes his case in The Atlantic's new issue