The first reparations program for slavery in the United States is under legal attack, with conservatives seeking to end the ...

The Justice Department says Evanston's reparations housing program violates the Constitution and Fair Housing Act.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Kenneth Wideman, 80, learned in 2023 he would be one of the first recipients of a $25,000 reparations payment from the city ...

Evanston has distributed more than $7 million to over 200 Black residents who are direct descendants of people harmed by housing discrimination.

We want to make sure that everyone knows that it is constitutional to pursue reparations,” says a law professor.

The Evanston Reparations Committee met Thursday, responding to the federal government’s move to join a lawsuit challenging the city’s reparations program. Approved in 2019, the city’s Restorative ...

Evanston’s reparations are not a story of granting arbitrary preferences, but a story of a city confronting its own history ...

One core challenge for Evanston’s reparations program is determining eligibility. Who, exactly, counts as sufficiently Black ...

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon says an Illinois city's reparations program cannot withstand constitutional ...

The Trump administration has moved to join a lawsuit seeking to halt the country’s first and only operating reparations program for Black residents, placing the Department of Justice on the side of a ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was moving to challenge a reparations program for Black residents in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, while ...