Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Detroiter Stephanie Coney applied for a homeownership program a few years ago, she not only received $25,000 that went toward ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- The City of Evanston has received more than 500 applications for its restorative housing program, according to city officials. Justin Marcoviche-Garnett applied on behalf of ...

More than a decade ago, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successfully pushed reparations into the contemporary conversation with his ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn't know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where Black families were once forced to live. Rue Simmons grew up just north of ...

Advocates for reparations, who have struggled to enact key pieces of their agenda, don't appear likely to have a strong ...

This conversation is the first installment of a Daily initiative to speak with students and Evanston residents directly about issues affecting their day-to-day lives. If you would like to participate ...

Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.

For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real ...

The Olympia City Council is set to discuss city-scale actions from around the country that could provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved African people in Olympia when it holds a June 24 ...

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 on the city's northwest side but got ...