The Advisory Council on Reparations follows a national effort to study and repair institutional and systemic racial injustice at the community level.

Residents in Detroit will be asked on the November ballot whether they want to change a specific section of the city charter. The ballot language approved by a Wayne County judge Friday afternoon asks voters a yes or no question.

The Detroit City Council has voted in favor of a reparation commitment.

The U.N. human rights chief is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through reparations.

Michigan Southern Christian Leadership President, the Rev. Aaron McCarthy, said the recent circulating petition on reparation isn’t all it’s pushed out to be.

Multiple organizations are making a serious case for reparations in the City of Detroit.