Tag: Slavery

A man in Tampa, Florida, wants the city to hand out $3 million in reparations for each Black resident. “No Black person cares about them speed bumps or parks and ...

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson on Wednesday wildly accused Republicans of wishing slavery still existed as he argued that more immigrants were needed in the US to keep Americans from starving.  ...

California’s Reparations Task Force has voted to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize for slavery and past injustices. The nine-member committee, which first convened almost two ...

California’s reparations task force voted in favor of multiple recommendations Saturday that could cut a minimum of $360,000 in checks to its eligible black residents. The nine-member committee gave final approval ...

He has five wives, a $500,000 Rolls Royce — and is trying to get back $30 billion in artworks stolen from his ancestors 135 years ago, including some of the ...

Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th-century law governing the treatment of slaves. The ...

Film buffs are sure to give a damn about this revelatory piece of movie memorabilia. An unearthed shooting script for “Gone With The Wind” has exposed how a “war” over the depiction ...

A descendant of a major donor to a law school demanded that the institution pay back $3.6 billion after a decision was made to change the school name. Virginia lawyer Robert C. ...

​A San Francisco committee studying reparations has proposed a one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible African-American inhabitant of the city as recompense for the “decades of harm they ...

A Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist exposed the “appalling” cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that went viral. The ...