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Byline: Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who [...]

Byline: Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) -- I like holidays so the creation of a new federal observance -- Juneteenth, or June 19 -- had me looking at [...]

Byline: Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph (CNN) -- The US Senate's unanimous passage on Tuesday of a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of racial slavery [...]

Byline: Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) -- For much of US history, Juneteenth has been a date observed mostly by Black Americans commemorating the symbolic end of slavery. Since the reckoning [...]

Byline: Opinion by Kate Masur (CNN) -- Speaking to the Tennessee House of Representatives on Tuesday, State Representative Justin Lafferty became the latest politician to reveal how little many Americans, [...]

Byline: Daniella Diaz and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) -- A House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans, [...]

Byline: Daniella Diaz and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) -- A House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans, [...]

Byline: Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) -- Slavery reparations are back in the national spotlight. A House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing this week to discuss establishing a federal commission that [...]

Byline: Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) -- A French right-wing magazine has sparked outrage over an illustration published in its most recent issue depicting the Black politician Danièle Obono as an [...]

Byline: Jamie Ehrlich, CNN (CNN) -- Among the policy proposals in Congress in the wake of the death of George Floyd is a bill to consider reparations. Legislation that would [...]

Byline: Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) -- Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only African American Republican senator, told CNN on Wednesday that he agrees with Senate Majority Leader Mitch [...]

Byline: Veronica Stracqualursi and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) -- New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover testified Wednesday before a House panel hearing on [...]

Byline: Veronica Stracqualursi and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) -- New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover testified Wednesday before a House panel hearing on [...]

Byline: Veronica Stracqualursi and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) -- New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover testified Wednesday before a House panel hearing on [...]

Byline: Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) -- New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover will testify Wednesday before a House panel hearing on reparations for [...]

Byline: Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) -- A House panel will hold a hearing next week on the topic of reparations for slavery. The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, [...]

Byline: Euan McKirdy and Kocha Olarn, CNN BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Reforms to address modern-day slavery in Thailand's fishing fleets haven't stamped out coercive labor practices in the industry, a [...]

Byline: Euan McKirdy and Kocha Olarn, CNN BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Reforms to address modern-day slavery in Thailand's fishing fleets haven't stamped out coercive labor practices in the industry, a [...]

Byline: Euan McKirdy and Kocha Olarn, CNN BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Reforms to address modern-day slavery in Thailand's fishing fleets haven't stamped out coercive labor practices in the industry, a [...]

Byline: Analysis by Z. Byron Wolf, CNN (CNN) -- Most of the national coverage of Roy Moore's effort to upset the establishment in his bid for Senate in Alabama has [...]

Byline: Paul Armstrong, CNN (CNN) -- Japanese officials have distanced themselves from comments made by a prominent nationalist politician that suggested women forced to become prostitutes to entertain Japanese troops [...]