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:
California Panel Takes Big Step Toward $800 Billion Reparation Payments to Black Residents, and Formal Apology
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) – California’s reparations task panel approved recommendations to compensate and apologize to Black communities for centuries of discrimination. At a meeting in Oakland, the nine-member committee, which first met nearly two years ago, approved a lengthy list of reparations recommendations for state lawmakers to examine. At the meeting, U.S.…
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Black Californians hope state reparations don’t become another broken promise
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco resident Pia Harris hopes for reparations in her lifetime. But the nonprofit program director is not confident that California lawmakers will turn the recommendations of a first-in-the-nation task force into concrete legislation given pushback from opponents who say slavery was a thing of the past. It frustrates Harris, 45,…
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Gov. Newsom Releases May Budget Revision; Addresses Reparations Cash Payments
By Antonio Ray Harvey| California Black Media (CBM) – Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom released the “May Revision” of his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24 budget proposal that he submitted in January. Despite a $32 billion projected shortfall, the $306.5 billion spending plan protects key investments in priorities that matter most to Californians, Newsom said. Education,…
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California lawmakers on reparations panel challenge assumptions about payments to Black residents
SACRAMENTO (AP) — As California lawmakers hail the work of a historic panel that has delved into reparations proposals for African Americans for nearly two years, a state senator on the task force is warning Black residents to not assume that large cash payments are on the way. Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford, of Los Angeles,…
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California Panel Takes Big Step Toward $800 billion Reparation Payments to Black Residents, and Formal Apology
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) – California’s reparations task panel approved recommendations to compensate and apologize to Black communities for centuries of discrimination. At a meeting in Oakland, the nine-member committee, which first met nearly two years ago, approved a lengthy list of reparations recommendations for state lawmakers to examine. At the meeting,…
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Reparations Task Force Concludes 15th Meeting
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – On May 6th, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans held its 15th meeting and voted on its final report. The report must be submitted to the California legislature by the end of June. During the meeting held at…
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California Reparations Calculator: How much does a state panel say I’m owed?
By CalMatters, CalMatters Network var pymParent = new pym.Parent(‘pym-parent’, “https://calmatters-reparations-calculator.netlify.app/calc-embed?copy=y”, {}); After two years studying the effects of slavery and modern-day racism, the state task force is urging California to repair the long-term damage African-Americans here have suffered. Among its recommendations: that the state make a “down payment” on financial reparations. Economic experts devised ways…
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Reparations Task Force to Recommend “Genealogy Branch” to Prove Eligibility
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans is recommending that the State Legislature fund a governmental department dedicated to assisting reparations applicants prove their ancestry to enslaved people in the United States. The task force’s proposal to establish a…
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Will legislators adopt reparations recommendations?
(CALMATTERS) – California’s first-in-the-nation task force to study whether and how the state should pay reparations for residents who are descendants of slaves always had its work cut out for it. And with its research set to wrap up in a few months, it’s still not clear if the Legislature will accept its recommendations when it comes time to…
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Reparations: Experts Compute Hundreds of Billions Owed to Black Californians
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – Economists advising The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans have developed economic formulas that project the reparations owed to Black Californians who are descendants of people enslaved in the United States are likely to exceed $800 billion. Three of…
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