The Observer reflects on the meaning of reparations and the work being done by leaders advocating for descendants of enslaved Blacks to be given compensation for the generational impact of racism.
Here is our collection of stories addressing this important issue:
Task Force Hears From Dr. Margaret Fortune At Local Meeting
By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer Dr. Margaret Fortune, founder of Fortune School of Education, testified as an educational expert witness at the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans’ two-day meeting held in Sacramento on March 3-4. One of only two influential Sacramentans who appeared in front…
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5 Steps to Effective State, Local Reparations Plans
By Aswad Walker | Houston Defender | Word In Black (WIB) – There is a national move afoot taking shape on local level and state levels. Across America, some states, cities and townships are taking serious steps towards creating the framework for delivering reparations to African American descendants of enslaved persons. Shortly after the 2020…
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Reparations: California Legislative Analyst’s Office Proposes “Paths” For Payments
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – This past weekend, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans received insight on how the state government might implement recommendations the panel submits in its final proposal due before July 1. Chas Alamo, the principal fiscal and policy analyst…
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Sacramento’s Chance To Raise Its Voice On Reparations
By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer Attend the meeting in person or join virtually at http://oag.ca.gov/ab3121. Public comments are 9:10-10:10 a.m. The members of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California (CJEC) ask the Black community to participate in the next two-day state task force reparations meeting in Sacramento, Friday, March 3,…
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Black Pioneer’s Family Speaks About the Likelihood Of Reparations
By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer The brothers Elmer and Milford Fonza plan to ask the state’s reparations task force how their family can file a claim of eligibility when the group conducts its next two-day meeting in Sacramento, March 3-4. The nine-member California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for…
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Reparations: San Diego Tax Code Discussion Was Preamble to Task Force Meeting in Sac This Week
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – Two tax planning lawyers shared their perspectives on one of the ways to pay for the racial injustices suffered by Black Californians with the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans. At the task force’s last two-day meeting held in…
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Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to apologize to the families it imprisoned during World War II, Black politicians and civil rights leaders were integral to the movement. Thirty-five years after they won that apology — and survivors of prison camps received…
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Reparations Task Force: Freedmen’s Bureau Essential for Compensating Slave Descendants
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – The members of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans are preparing the pretext for recommending a modern-day Freedmen’s Bureau that will be critical for compensating descendants of enslaved Blacks for the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow discrimination…
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San Francisco Committee Recommends Massive Reparations Payout for Black Residents
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire (NNPA) – Each Black inhabitant of San Francisco, including those arrested during the racist war on drugs, should receive a one-time, lump-sum payment of $5 million from the African American Reparations Advisory Committee. Assuming the city council approves the proposal, it would be the largest payment of reparations…
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Local Activist Warns Of Objections To Reparations
By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer Chris Lodgson advised a small group of people seeking information about reparations to be aware of individuals in opposition to compensating Black people for the past and present harms they have suffered in California. Lodgson, a member of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California (CJEC),…
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