The New Jersey Reparations Council will give a one-year update on its deliberations

Gethsemane Cemetery in Bergen County was once neglected and vandalized

'There are too many who believed that it actually never happened here'

NJ Reparations Council continues with public hearings on slavery's impact

NJ Reparations Council holds second meeting, will publish findings in 2025

Social justice organization launches New Jersey Reparations Council

DNA analysis is being used to guide people to their roots

In Newark, the holiday was marked at two different events

They say they can’t wait for the state to create its own council

The house has been known as the 'freed slave house'

Reporter Taylor Jung examined long-running arguments about reparations in the context of her own family history

Juneteenth is now a federal and state holiday, but there's more to do according to some state leaders

Many in the Northeast say they never learned why Juneteenth is commemorated

Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills were plagued by questions about their own African American lineage. What they found was New Jersey’s brutal legacy of slave ...

Experts say members of the Black and brown community struggle to trust and find treatment for mental health.

A new report has found the highest number of youth bias incidents since the state began keeping records a quarter century ago.

Advocates and lawmakers want the state to study the impact and legacy of slavery in New Jersey and take action in the lame-duck session.

New Jersey has a rich abolitionist past.

Although slavery is commonly thought to be a thing of the past in the United States, human traffickers generate hundreds of billions of dollars yearly ...

Slavery reparations bills have stalled in Congress for decades and the issue remains deeply controversial.