It's the first of its kind in the country, and it's happening right here in California. A task force met for the very first time this week, setting up lengthy discussions about reparations for African ...

Rev. Tony Pierce CEO of Oakland’s Black Wall Street Project, addresses the California Reparations Task Force in Sacramento, Calif., on March 29, 2023. The task force will ask lawmakers to institute a ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans met California’s committee to study reparations for African Americans met Wednesday in Oakland to discuss what could ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of its final report recommending ...

A state task force had been split on who should receive reparations. A California task force’s decision to limit reparations for slavery to people who can trace their lineage to free and enslaved ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For the first time in the state's history, reparations or some form of repayment for the atrocities of slavery are being seriously discussed for Black Californians. While ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers and advocates are regrouping to determine how they will move forward in the effort to ensure reparative ...

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The task force is weighing different actions to address the effects of racism. A first-in-the-nation task force in California created to examine slavery and its impact on the Black community released ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. How do you advance Black reparations when the federal government has fully embraced anti-Blackness and is hellbent on ...

Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, D- CA 39, poses in this undated photo. The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving reparations ...

Morris Griffin holds a sign at the Reparations Task Force hearing at the March Fong Eu Secretary of State offices in Sacramento on June 29, 2023. (File photo by Semantha Norris/CalMatters) This story ...