The move by Jesuit priests is the largest such effort by the Roman Catholic Church and comes amid growing calls for reparations across the United States.

University officials described the decision as one step in a dialogue with the descendants, who are seeking $1 billion.

In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to help keep Georgetown University afloat. The New York Times helped some readers descended from the slaves piece together their families’ connection to the sale.

In its 19th-century beginnings, New York Life Insurance sold 508 policies covering slaves. Their descendants are grappling with it.

America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

Old newspaper ads are serving as a window into the hopes and histories of hundreds of individuals who were newly emancipated.

In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

In locked-down cities like Wuhan, isolated seniors and disabled people have largely had to fend for themselves.

The 4-year-old muppet character will make her debut on the show next month; she was introduced in a digital storybook released in fall 2015.

“The 272,” by Rachel L. Swarns, recounts the decision by the university’s early leaders to sell nearly 300 people enslaved on Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland in 1838.

We want to learn more about how people who have heard a racist remark address it.

A 61-year-old Kansas man was placed in handcuffs after local police spotted him at the end of a 12-hour moving day attempting to move a television into his new home.The Kansas City Star reported on…

Revisiting 1963 and the violence aimed at black voters, as seen through the lens of Claude Sitton, the renowned New York Times correspondent.

America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

A new historical report prepared by the university illuminates how human bondage seeped into the life of the institution.

Nine letters from Barack Obama to his college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear, will be available to the public at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose library.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

The move by Jesuit priests is the largest such effort by the Roman Catholic Church and comes amid growing calls for reparations across the United States.

The move comes more than three years after Major League Baseball announced it would be elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status.

A woman falsely accused the teenager of taking her phone in the video, which fueled concerns about racial profiling. It was shared by the teenager’s father, a prominent jazz musician.

The best-selling author of “Little Fires Everywhere” joined The New York Times on Facebook Live on Wednesday.

The City of Boston announced on Monday that it’s looking for partners to put together research on the city’s ties and role in slavery, as its Reparations Task Force moves forward with understanding...

Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people

Negroes Lynched in Southern States; Society Organized in England to Prevent

The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.

American history is dotted with cases of white men and women driven by love, ambition or other forces to defy laws and conventions meant to separate blacks and whites.

The Virginia Theological Seminary is setting aside $1.7 million to atone for its role in American slavery.