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California Task Force on Reparations Votes to Limit Compensation to Descendants of Slaves [UPDATED]
State compensation will only go to descendants of free and enslaved Black people in the U.S. in the 19th century.
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House Dems Say They Can Finally Get a Reparations Commission Passed
But the idea would still have a long way to go in the Senate
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California is the First State to Consider Reparations Legislation for Black People
A California task force has studied historical discrimination against Black people and proposed legislation to break the barriers created by systemic racism.
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California to Pay Reparations to Victims of Forced Sterilization in State Prisons
The nation known as the 'land of the free' once had a sanctioned eugenics program that inspired Nazi Germany. Imagine that.
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Juneteenth Is More Than a Federal Holiday. We Need Reparations Now
The speedy passage to make June 19 a holiday shows that government can act quickly. They should keep that same energy for the House reparations bill.
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'We Have Given More Than Has Ever Been Given to Us': California's 1st-in-the-Nation Slavery Reparations Task Force Meets
When it comes to the recent efforts to make reparations for descendants of American slavery happen, I am of two minds. On one hand—meh. It just seems like everything being proposed falls short of an actual promise that reparations for Black people will ever happen as the proposals aren’t for actual reparations; they are mostly…