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Legislative Black Caucus Unveils 16 Reparations Bills for 2025

February 25, 2025 1:31 pmFebruary 25, 2025 1:31 pm

The California Legislative Black Caucus recently unveiled the 16 reparations bills they are attempting to pass this year in Sacramento, hoping that the effort this year will be more successful than last year when few reparations bills wound up being...

California Back With New Reparations Bill for ‘Descendants of Slaves Seeking Licenses’

February 20, 2025 2:55 amFebruary 21, 2025 7:21 am

Even after all of California Democrats’ failed attempts at reparations legislation, here comes one more… Being a descendent of a slave will get you special priority when applying for a professional license in non-slave state California. No joke. Assembly Bill...

Legal Challenges Expected over Slave Descendant Priority College Admission Bill

January 30, 2025 6:33 pmJanuary 30, 2025 6:33 pm

A bill based on a Reparations Task Force suggestion that would give admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) faced growing challenges this week following multiple lawyers saying that...

CA Lawmakers Look At Giving Reparations Bills Another Shot In 2025 Following Failure In 2024

December 30, 2024 4:19 pmDecember 30, 2024 4:19 pm

Reparations advocates are looking at 2025 to be the year that key reparations bills are passed, with some to pave the way for larger monetary reparations in the future. Following the George Floyd incident and a renewed call for reparations...

New Bill Introduced to Give Admission Priority for Slave Descendants At UC, CSU

December 2, 2024 5:06 pmDecember 2, 2024 5:06 pm

Efforts to add more reparations laws to the books in California in 2025 began on Monday when Assemblyman Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) introduced a new bill based on a Reparations Task Force suggestion that would give admission priority to the...

OPINION: California Slavery Reparations Fallacies

August 14, 2024 7:30 amAugust 14, 2024 7:31 am

In June, CalMatters published an item by Democrat Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, member of the California (slavery) Reparations Task Force that, for over three million California taxpayer dollars, rendered a Report of over a thousand pages, much of which had absolutely...

Non-Slave State California Initiating Reparations to Blacks in New Budget Bill

June 23, 2024 9:40 amJune 25, 2024 6:41 am

The $297.9 billion budget plan California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrat leaders announced Saturday appropriates $12 million to fund a series of reparations-related bills lawmakers undoubtedly will pass later this year. While crime escalates, California public schools fail students, homeless...