Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...

The African Union (AU) has officially classified slavery, colonization, and forced deportation as crimes against humanity and ...

John Conyers—the longest-serving African-American member of Congress in history—first introduced the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act,” or United ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to ...

California became the first state to pass into law a reparations task force and the first state to introduce a slavery ...

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy ...

The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies heard from the Rochester community during a public hearing ...

We are really proud that New York state is only the second state to establish a statewide effort to look at reparations and ...

Bill Fogarty The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation recently provided an interesting glimpse into the history of slavery in ...