By Layli Foroudi PARIS, May 28 (Reuters) - French lawmakers voted on Thursday to formally repeal slavery-era laws that ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France's colonies.

The French president launched a new chapter in France's reckoning with its past by addressing, for the first time, the issue of 'reparations' linked to the transatlantic slave trade.

French president’s use of term comes as demand grows for formal discussion on addressing legacies of enslavement ...

President Emmanuel Macron has said the “immense” issue of reparations for France’s role in the transatlantic slave trade must ...

Lee Hawkins's book argues for expanding the reparations debate to include survivors of the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era subjected Black people to racial segregation, violence, and systemic ...

New York lawmakers voted on a bill Thursday that would establish a commission to study the state's role in slavery and address lingering racial disparities.

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

Reparations advocates spoke at Kennedy King College in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, arguing the "moral" responsibility of the federal government to compensate Black Americans for slavery. One of the ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to ask Pope Leo XIV to use his pulpit to support reparations as part of his Repair ...

Mr Macron became the first French president to discuss reparations openly at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of a law recognising slavery and trafficking as a crime against humanity.