Overall, the legislation is expected to cost the city's taxpayers about $2.5 million, according to a fiscal analysis of the ...

"The reparations movement is often misunderstood as merely a call for compensation," Council Member Farah Louis, a Democrat ...

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, the package of ...

New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars ...

Slavery was outlawed in New York in 1827 and federally in 1865 with the 13th Amendment. Polls have shown the majority of adults are against reparations.

NEW YORK - 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, the ...

Legislators in New York City have sent a bill creating a study of reparations to Mayor Eric Adams, Adams has signaled his ...

Today, Linda Tigani, Chair and Executive Director of the Commission on Racial Equity (CORE) released the following statement ...