The new laws strengthen California’s commitment to repairing the harms of slavery, signaling a long-term effort that’s ...

In September 2020,  amid the national uproar over the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his ...

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key first steps toward reparations for Black Californians whose ancestors were ...

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

But he vetoed five other reparations measures backed by the California Legislative Black Caucus, including one that would have allowed colleges to prioritize descendants of American slavery and ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five laws advancing reparations for the descendants of enslaved people in California, but he vetoed ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed bills that would have provided tangible benefits to those descendants, though he ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a new state agency that will be responsible for administering reparations to ...

Longtime reparations advocate Justin Hansford ... and persistent wealth gap between Black and white Americans,” said the report by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals ...