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After more than two years of fact-finding, reports and public hearings, the California Reparations Task Force on June 29 will hand over to the California Assembly its extensive report and ...
Compensation for mass incarceration and over-policing of African Americans: $2,352 for each year of residency in California during the war on drugs from 1971 to 2020.
After a blockbuster 1,000 page report, California's reparations advocates will have to convert recommendations from its statewide task force into policies — and convincing voters to pay for it.
It was the country's first statewide reparations task committee [1] and was created to study methods to resolve systemic racism against African Americans resulting from slavery's enduring legacy. [2] The task force was designed to recommend ways to educate the California public of the task force's findings and to propose remedies.
The California government should provide reparations for its history of unjust policies toward African Americans. Reparations in California are about political responsibility, not individual guilt ...
The Golden State has over 2 million Californians that identify as Black or African American, but some experts say reparations would be a complicated process at the state level.
The group recommended the state pay black residents $3,366 in reparations for each year they lived in California from the early 1930s to the late 1970s, when the issue was most pervasive.
Simmons, whose work as an intern helped with the formation of the task force, said she has heard from detractors that the quest for reparations is a “futile effort” and “we should just let ...