For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would introduce H.R. 40, legislation seeking to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals. Though ...

Justice often ends cases but leaves harm unresolved. Repair reduces repeated violence by allowing harm to be acknowledged and ...

WASHINGTON — “Institutional harm was done to Black people through deliberate laws.” That was the message on Capitol Hill yesterday, as U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley held a briefing on her push for HR 40, ...

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.

The School of International and Public Affairs’ Institute of Global Politics and Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution held its second virtual panel focused on conflict-related sexual ...

An apology is the cornerstone of first-in-the-nation reparations legislation to repair the wrongs of slavery and the systemic injustices that followed. A bill to formally apologize to the descendants ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated in its home state of Texas since 1866, but it wouldn’t become a nationwide holiday until 2021 as racial tensions spiked in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.

What is restorative justice?: How an inside-out class rewrote tragedy"Hamlet" has endured the ages, embodying timeless themes of the human condition. But what if its tragic ending — with every ...

During the first week of December in Belgium, the festival « REstART – The Art of Justice, Dialogue and Repair », organised by the network European Forum ...

Two bills meant to help repair harms committed against Black Californians are facing headwinds in the waning days of the state’s legislative session, including from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The measures, ...

A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...