Lee Hawkins

Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.

After Lotte Lieb Dula discovered her family connection to slavery, she crafted an online guide to reparations and racial healing.

Following a Florida bill that effectively bans DEI programs at the state's college and universities, the NAACP has called on Black athletes to reconsider attending predominantly white institutions.

In response, the mayor of Birmingham is calling on Black athletes to boycott the state's colleges and universities.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked to safeguard his intellectual property before his death. Now, his family continues to protect his works and impact.

A.G. Gaston was a Black entrepreneur who invested millions of dollars into the Civil Rights Movement and Black America.

Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.

Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.

After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.