American slavery ended with the Civil War but the debate about moral responsibility continues. Workers enslaved by Nazi Germany will finally be paid for their suffering, and Japanese Americans have ...

For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been treated as history — a horrific chapter to be memorialized but not rectified. Last week at the United Nations General Assembly, Ghana’s president, ...

A bill is moving forward at the State House that would establish a special commission to study the feasibility and ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders caused a stir when he told Fusion that he does not support reparations for slavery on the grounds that such a program would be “very divisive” and ...

Naming the slave trade humanity’s “greatest crime,” African leaders at the UN are pushing for reparations, a debt long denied to Black people. For centuries, the transatlantic slave trade has been ...