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Lisa Holder Credit - Jennifer Rocholl. I n 2021, a Black homeowner in Marin County shared a chilling story with the California reparations task force. He and his wife had renovated their home ...
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 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.
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.
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.
Despite California’s Black population making up just 7% of the state’s total population, today, 26% of the state’s unhoused population is Black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
California was the first state to consider reparations for Black residents, and the California Reparations Task Force was formed in order to present the state legislature its recommendations. [112] Economists tell the state that Black Californians could be owed $800 billion in reparations.
California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system ...