Slavery Reparations Task Force Archives

Veto Urged for Bill Extending CA Reparations Task Force

September 13, 2022 12:30 pm

Groups that favor reparations for African-Americans in California, such as the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, sent a letter to Gavin Newsom earlier this week urging him not to sign an upcoming bill that would extend the life...

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Reparations Task Force Releases First Report, Calls For Reparations To Be Given for Past Oppression

June 2, 2022 2:36 amJune 1, 2022 8:45 pm

The California Reparations Task Force released their first report on Wednesday, both documenting the harm made against African-Americans in California since 1850, and calling for reparations to given given to all slave-descendent blacks in the state. In the 500-page Reparations...

Reparations Task Force To Release First Report on Harms Made Against Black Californians

June 1, 2022 2:50 amMay 31, 2022 7:26 pm

The California Reparations Task Force announced on Tuesday that a report will be released in the coming days that documents California’s history of harm against African Americans in the past, as well as helping prepare legislators in the coming years...

CA Reparations Panel Votes 5-4 to Limit Payouts Only to Descendants of Slaves

March 30, 2022 12:49 pmMarch 30, 2022 2:55 pm

The Reparations Task Force voted 5-4 on Tuesday to limit proposed state reparations to only those descended from free and enslaved black Americans in the 19th century, rejecting broader limits of all black residents regardless of ancestry and finally ending...

Calif. Reparations Task Force Split on Eligibility; Decision Delayed

February 25, 2022 12:01 pm

The Reparations Task Force voted Thursday 5-4 to delay a vote on the matter of who will be eligible for reparations, surprising many who believed that they would come a definite decision on the issue. The Reparations Task Force was...

Secretary of State Weber Says Potential Reparations Would Be For Descendants of Slaves Only

January 28, 2022 12:19 pmJanuary 28, 2022 12:58 pm

Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the author of AB 3121 and the California legislative Slavery Reparations Task Force, said on Thursday that reparations for slavery should only go to the descendants of slaves and not black immigrants or their descendants....

CA Legislative Slavery Reparations Task Force Convenes For First Time

June 2, 2021 2:20 amJune 1, 2021 9:14 pm

The first California legislative Slavery Reparations Task Force meeting convened on Tuesday, beginning a two year process in which they will come up with what reparations would be to descendants of former slaves will be and who exactly would be...