SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of its final report recommending ...

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. How do you advance Black reparations when the federal government has fully embraced anti-Blackness and is hellbent on ...

Morris Griffin holds a sign at the Reparations Task Force hearing at the March Fong Eu Secretary of State offices in Sacramento on June 29, 2023. (File photo by Semantha Norris/CalMatters) This story ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's been 80 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Decades later, the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers and advocates are regrouping to determine how they will move forward in the effort to ensure reparative ...

The California governor signed the bill five years after forming a task force to examine the impact of racist policies on descendants of enslaved people. Five years after California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a handful of bills advancing the cause of reparations for Black Californians on Monday, dealing the latest blow to a first-of-its-kind movement to atone for state-inflicted ...

Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, D- CA 39, poses in this undated photo. The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving reparations ...

George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine ...

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