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Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, during a meeting to hear public input in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via ...
The California Legislative Black Caucus announced 14 priority reparations bills in January based on recommendations made last year by the reparations task force. Lawmakers cast the legislation as ...
PHOTO: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles, on Sept. 25, 2024. (Eric Thayer/AP) The agency that would have carried out the policy would have been created ...
Moore left the Los Angeles area early Saturday to get to Sacramento and was in the Capitol after the bills died at midnight. Bradford had wanted to bring up the measures on Wednesday.
Reparations is a debt owed to the descendants of slavery,” said the bills’ author, state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, vice chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a handful of bills on Thursday that stemmed from a yearslong effort to issue race-based reparations for the state’s Black residents and their descendants.
The reparations bills include three of the most critical now before California state lawmakers: Bills that will form the foundation for how the historic effort will be implemented; create funding ...
Amos C. Brown Jr., vice chair of the California Reparations Task Force, right, holds a copy of "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation" during a group photo at the Capitol in Sacramento in June.