Although slavery was never legal in California, the state is playing a pivotal role in the middle of a red-hot national debate that could force California insurance companies to pay billions of ...

A new phase in the global debate over colonial responsibility may soon unfold at the United Nations. Ghana has announced that it plans to submit a ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

In a heated debate last night, Dorothy Lewis — a leader in the movement for reparations for slavery — and David Horowitz — the movement's most outspoken antagonist — presented their views to a packed ...

The debate over reparations for descendants of slaves catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea from actor Danny Glover and others for lawmakers to address ...

“Slavery was standard practice throughout human history until it was ended by White people.” This incendiary remark posted by Elon Musk on X captures precisely why our society remains ill-equipped for ...

The debate over slavery reparations continues to spark strong opinions across the United States. We took the conversation to ...

WASHINGTON - A House panel advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves by approving legislation Wednesday that would create a commission to study the issue. It's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Campaigners denounce Cecil Rhodes, leading light of the British Empire, beneath his statue at Oriel College, Oxford, in 2020 - ...

Suleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. The Empire enslaved millions of people - Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Having spent the ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he opposed reparations for descendants of American slaves, arguing it would be hard to figure out who to compensate, NBC News reported. "I ...