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The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California's $300 billion annual budget, and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have ...
In contrast, the task force on reparations for the state of California has proposed a sliding scale with a limit of $1.2 million for elderly Black individuals. The cash amount received a lot of attention, but it is mostly viewed as unachievable in a city with mounting fiscal challenges and a lack of political agreement on the subject.
According to the Brookings Institution, in 1860, over $3 billion (~$83 billion in 2023) was the value assigned to the physical bodies of enslaved Black Americans to be used as free labor and production. [citation needed] This was more money than was invested in factories and railroads combined. In 1861, the value placed on cotton produced by ...
In August 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that is tied to the Black Lives Matter movement, released a policy platform based around reparations. [21] The platform listed six demands, comprising 40 policy recommendations, and "seeks reparations for lasting harms caused to African-Americans of slavery and investment in education ...
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Former residents and their descendants say the city of Palm Springs owes them up to $2 billion in damages for the forcible removal in the 1950s and '60s of cooks, chauffeurs and builders who ...
Blacks in California are more prone to obesity. [104] Homicide rates are higher for African Americans in California. [105] Blacks in California are more likely to experience depression, psychological distress and other mental health conditions. [106] [107] [108] The suicide rate is higher for Black Californians than white Californians. [109 ...
In 1939, Gus and Emma Thompson, a Black entrepreneurial couple, agreed to rent and eventually sell the house they owned to the Dongs, a Chinese American family.