Reparations advocates Linda Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks of Harvard's Kennedy School argue payments are needed to close ...

"The reparations movement is often misunderstood as merely a call for compensation," Council Member Farah Louis, a Democrat ...

Instead of healing racial tensions, it threatens to raise false expectations of big payouts and provoke resentments.

Overall, the legislation is expected to cost the city's taxpayers about $2.5 million, according to a fiscal analysis of the ...

Americans agree that slavery and Jim Crow were abhorrent parts of our nation’s past, but reparations won’t heal racial tensions.

Slavery was outlawed in New York in 1827 and federally in 1865 with the 13th Amendment. Polls have shown the majority of adults are against reparations.

Legislators in New York City have sent a bill creating a study of reparations to Mayor Eric Adams, Adams has signaled his ...

New York City lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to study the city's significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people. If signed into law, the package of ...

During an interview with NABJ and WHYY, Harris talked about race more extensively than she had since emerging as a ...

The New York City Council on Thursday passed a package of bills addressing the legacy and impact of slavery in the city, ...

Today, Linda Tigani, Chair and Executive Director of the Commission on Racial Equity (CORE) released the following statement ...