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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery. The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on […]
Haven Daley/AP From left: California State Sen. Steven Bradford, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Lisa Holder and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer hold a copy of the final report during a hearing in Sacramento, California, on Thursday, June 29, 2023. CNN — A task force examining reparations for Black residents in California released its final report […]
After two years of deliberations, California’s Reparations Task Force on Thursday is sending its final report and recommendations to the state Capitol, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers will ultimately decide how the state should atone for slavery. “We must remind each and every one of us that the final report is not the end […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation slavery reparations task force wraps up its historic work Thursday with the official submission of a report two years in the making, one that documents the state’s role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and suggests dozens of ways to atone. The report heads to lawmakers who will be […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation slavery reparations task force wraps up its historic work Thursday with the official submission of a report two years in the making, one that documents the state’s role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and suggests dozens of ways to atone. The report heads to lawmakers who will be […]
Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, should be a joyous celebration of freedom. Yet nearly 160 years later, that freedom feels like a dream deferred — a promise unfulfilled. The end of institutionalized slavery led to generations of institutionalized racism in the United […]
It’s time for serious Black folks in this country to make it clear that when we advocate for reparations, it is not requesting some kind of gift from the federal government. Reparations to us means that as descendants of enslaved Africans, we are due payment for the 250 years for which our ancestors were forced […]
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri took time to commemorate Juneteenth by strengthening the case for reparations for descendants of enslaved Black people. A $97 trillion case, to be exact. Bush introduced legislation in May, “The Reparations Now Resolution,” a 23-page document calling on the United States to address the “enslavement of Africans and its […]
Reparations for slavery in the U.S. have been discussed contentiously, not only in the lead-up to this Monday’s Juneteenth holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the country. A survey carried out by Pew Research Center in 2021 shows that two thirds in the U.S. reject the idea of . . .
Philadelphia City Council will consider creating a reparations task force next week, a move that would make this the latest U.S. city to explore payments and other compensation to Black descendants of enslaved Africans. The resolution to create the task force was introduced at Thursday’s meeting by Councilmembers Jamie Gauthier and Kendra Brooks. If it moves forward, the […]