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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.
Led by Supervisor Shamann Walton, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors created the 15-member reparations committee in late 2020, months after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off on a ...
Eric McDonnell, chair of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee, speaks during a special Board of Supervisors hearing about reparations in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 14, 2023.
A Washington, D.C., City Council member recently reintroduced a bill to empanel a reparations committee, a move similar to what San Francisco undertook in 2020. The move could have national ...
The state panel’s vote comes as San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee is set to issue its own final report sometime next month. The panel’s draft plan included ...
March 2021 — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to create an African American Reparations Advisory Committee. [23] June 15, 2021 — The Detroit City Council voted to create a reparations commission. [24]
The African American Reparations Advisory Committee also proposed that every eligible Black adult receive a $5 million lump-sum cash payment and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year to ...
By 1860, there were 1,176 African-Americans living in San Francisco, or 2% of the city's population, most of them middle class. [14] The San Francisco Athenaeum and Literary Society, established in 1853, which included a saloon and an 800 book library, was a gathering place for African-Americans at that time. [15] [16]