Instead of healing racial tensions, it threatens to raise false expectations of big payouts and provoke resentments.
New York is to consider paying reparations to the descendants of slaves, under plans approved by the city council.
New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars ...
Nearly 200 years after slavery was outlawed in New York, proponents of a New York City reparations package tell The New York ...