The commission will have 12 months from the date of its first meeting to issue a report with recommended actions to provide reparations to Black New Yorkers, to address the long-standing effects of ...
Reparations activist Darrick Hamilton, who argues the U.S. economy is racist, joins NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s ...
NEW YORK — New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday. “We want to make ...
New York City is one step closer to conducting its own study into the effects of slavery and possible reparations after the city council passed legislation on Thursday. In recent years, various cities ...
Any New York state reparations legislation will be “vigorously challenged in federal court,” the reformer behind the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to block affirmative action in higher education, ...
The city joins a growing number of cities and states, including New York, that are taking action to examine the effects of slavery and possible reparations. By Jeffery C. Mays Almost 200 years after ...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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, ...
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has rolled out a sweeping transition effort that includes more than 17 advisory ...
New York's reparations commission will hold its third meeting in New Rochelle and Syracuse on Tuesday as it prepares to study the lasting harms of slavery and discrimination on Black New Yorkers and ...