NEW YORK - New York City Council members passed legislation Thursday aimed at acknowledging, studying and addressing the impact of slavery and racial injustices in New York City, including a bill ...

New York City considering paying reparations for slavery. ... New York City had one of the highest rates if slave ownership in the country during the 1700s, before abolishing it in 1872.

The city joins a growing number of cities and states, including New York, that are taking action to examine the effects of slavery and possible reparations. By Jeffery C. Mays Almost 200 years ...

New York is the latest city to study reparations. Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a notorious massacre of Black residents took place in 1921, announced a similar commission last month.

The New York City Council has joined its San Francisco counterpart in proposing potential financial reparations for the descendants of enslaved Americans. The year-long, $1.5 million task force ...

NYC Council passes bill to study reparations 02:10. NEW YORK - New York City Council members passed legislation Thursday aimed at acknowledging, studying and addressing the impact of slavery and ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...