Editor’s note: Danette Mitchell’s column appears in the Sunday print editions of The Reporter. As the observance of Black History Month concludes in just a few days, Sen. Cory Booker and U.S. Rep.

Baltimore does not easily forget the past, but far too often, it is forced to move on too quickly past its painful history. But there are some stories we can’t afford to leave behind. Not when the ...

Black members of Congress and advocates convened on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for what they say is an urgent call for reparations, even as Donald Trump’s White House uses the power of the presidency to ...

South Bend's Reparatory Justice Commission stands as a critical initiative aimed at addressing long-standing and systemic injustice and fostering equity and reparative justices in our community. The ...

In June 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom set aside $12 million to spend on reparations legislation, a historic move by the state to atone for its legacy of racism and discrimination against Black residents.

Reparation measures are intended to be acts of justice that not only address harm but also recognize that recipients’ rights were violated. It’s an effort to create Reparative Justice. This can happen ...

The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has an opportunity to make ...

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key first steps toward reparations for Black Californians whose ancestors were ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, July 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 7, 2025, the Civil Society Forum of the African ...

In what they called a “groundbreaking act of reparative justice,” Presbyterian church leaders from the San Gabriel Valley returned centuries-old ancestral Indigenous land to its original caretakers.