The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law authorizing $6 million for California State University to study how to confirm ...

California creates a groundbreaking agency for reparations for Black Americans, becoming the first state to address systemic ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would have given descendants of enslaved people preferences in ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill establishing a state government agency which will administer reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved people.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For the first time in the state's history, reparations or some form of repayment for the atrocities of slavery are being seriously discussed for Black Californians. While ...

Rev. Tony Pierce CEO of Oakland’s Black Wall Street Project, addresses the California Reparations Task Force in Sacramento, Calif., on March 29, 2023. The task force will ask lawmakers to institute a ...

The governor is allocating $12 million for the programs, drawing criticism from Republican lawmakers amid the state's budget ...

A similar effort is underway to delve into what Newsom has called California’s dark history of violence ... The African American reparations task force, which began meeting in June 2021, will release ...

*California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans will discuss how the wealth gap has affected Black Californians at its next two-day meeting in Sacramento on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s ...