New York may be poised to study the generational impacts of slavery through a new commission to consider reparations for Black residents. State lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that would ...

New York will undertake an ambitious effort to address the state’s history of slavery and racism, establishing the United States’ third statewide task force to examine whether reparations can ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov ...

New York became the second state to consider reparations after California, where economists estimated reparations could cost more than $800 billion. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, seated center, signed a bill Tuesday to create a commission that will study reparations and the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday to create a new commission to study reparations and racial justice.. The state commission will be tasked with examining the legacy of slavery ...

A New York commission that will recommend whether to give reparations for slavery and discrimination to black residents hasn't even met yet -- but it's already sparked a among black New Yorkers ...

— New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy ...

New York GOP chair Ed Cox criticized the bill, saying Hochul’s signature on a “divisive and unproductive reparations study is misguided,” arguing the decision reopens “old wounds and stoke ...

New York is the latest city to study reparations. Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a notorious massacre of Black residents took place in 1921, announced a similar commission last month.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York on Tuesday created a commission to study potential reparations for state residents of African descent, making it the second state after California to do so.

The New York City Council has joined its San Francisco counterpart in proposing potential financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans. The year-long, $1.5 million task force ...