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 ...

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.

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, ...

Justice systems exist to respond to rule violations, yet violence does far more than break rules. It disrupts meaning, fractures identity, and weakens the sense of safety that allows individuals and ...

Late last year, restorative justice organization Let’s Circle Up gathered community members in West Philadelphia for a two-day workshop to explore alternative approaches to punitive models of criminal ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Reparations Committee in Evanston announced Feb. 5 that it will be distributing funds to an additional 44 residents this year, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Restorative Justice, imposed for the sake of racial "equity," was supposed to strengthen school culture -- but instead it removed the boundaries kids need to learn and thrive, Jennifer Weber writes.