U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., held back tears as she officially introduced H.R. 40, legislation that has been advocated in Congress for more than 30 years. “It is an honor,” Pressley said during ...

Way to fight back, Rep. Pressley! Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced plans to reintroduce H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans ...

When Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination in 2020, he said the nation was issuing "the most compelling call for racial justice since the '60s." Months later after winning the presidency, he ...

They've set up a protest site on the Ellipse near the White House. It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on ...

During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., plans to introduce the ...

Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, the distinguished Professor of Sociology behind the book Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation, is in Washington, D.C., to advance his ongoing push for ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for African Americans who were impacted by slavery. In a letter to Senate President Bill ...

When Detroiter Stephanie Coney applied for a homeownership program a few years ago, she not only received $25,000 that went toward the mortgage of her brick home in northwest Detroit but got access to ...

In a letter dated Sept. 9, 2024, former Cambridge City Councillor Quinton Zondervan wrote, “One of the proudest achievements from my time of service on the City Council was passing the American ...

Pressley took over the mantle of the historic legislation that has been introduced in every session of Congress since 1989. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., held back tears as she officially ...