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California reparations

July 2024

  • A crowd outside city hall with yellow umbrellas with 'reparations now' printed on them.

    California to spend $12m on reparations in milestone move to address racist past

    New $297.9bn budget signed by Gavin Newsom, the state’s governor, does not specify what programs it would aid

September 2023

  • Composite of two black-and-white images, with a red spine down the middle with script saying 'San Francisco redevelopment agency and the Bayview Hunters Point joint housing committee'. On the left a Black woman in a dress and trench coat stands in an overgrown back yard. On the right is a line of Victorian facades partially destroyed.

    Through the roof
    San Francisco razed its ‘Harlem of the West’. Detectives seek those who lost homes

  • Don Tamaki, Kay Ochi, June Hibino

    Think reparations are impossible? The story of Japanese Americans proves otherwise

July 2023

  • Alison Rose Jefferson showing the Phillips Chapel CME Church.

    ‘Denying our humanity’: how Santa Monica decimated a thriving Black community

    African Americans helped build the iconic beach town, historian Alison Rose Jefferson details as California weighs reparations

June 2023

  • People line up to speak during a reparations task force meeting in San Francisco in April 2022.

    California’s first-in-nation reparations taskforce releases final report

    The 1,100-page document details examples of discrimination and recommends how to address the harms of chattel slavery

May 2023

  • The taskforce was formed in 2020 following the death of George Floyd.

    California’s plan for reparations to Black residents: what you need to know

    First-of-its-kind committee gives final approval to long list of proposals including cash to descendants of enslaved people

March 2023

  • Man wearing a white shirt and blue tie speaking into a megaphone

    San Francisco backs reparations plans, including $5m to eligible Black adults

    Proposals also include financing debt forgiveness, guaranteed annual incomes for families and homes in the city for $1

September 2022

  • A collage of photos shows different families, past and present.

    The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families

    A multigenerational fight for reparations is underway from Palm Springs to Gold Rush country

June 2022

  • FILE - People line up to speak during a reparations task force meeting at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on April 13, 2022. A report by California's first in the nation task force on reparations Wednesday, June 1 will document in detail the harms perpetuated by the state against Black people and recommend ways to address those wrongs. (AP Photo/Janie Har, File)

    ‘Atrocities in every sector’: California’s reparations panel details discrimination

    A 500-page report describes the mistreatment of Black Americans since 1850 and advises reforms and aid for descendants of slaves

March 2022

  • Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Freedom, Los Angeles, California, USA - 19 Jun 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Chelsea Lauren/REX/Shutterstock (12124605cf) People attend a Juneteenth Celebration of Black Freedom hosted by Black Lives Matter LA and BLD PWR Juneteenth: A Celebration of Black Freedom, Los Angeles, California, USA - 19 Jun 2021

    California reparations decision sparks debate over who should qualify

  • Shirley Weber<br>FILE - Assemblywoman Shirley Weber speaks at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on June 10, 2020. Weber is the daughter of sharecroppers who authored legislation creating the first-in-the-nation task force in California to study and recommend reparations. California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation. The task force could vote on the question of eligibility on Tuesday, March 28, 2022, after putting it off at February's meeting. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

    California reparations to be limited to descendants of enslaved people, taskforce decides

January 2022

  • US-POLITICS-RACISM-HISTORY<br>People dance during the Leimert Park Rising Juneteenth celebration on June 19, 2021 in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. - The US on June 17 designated Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the country, a federal holiday with President Joe Biden urging Americans "to learn from our history." (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians

    Taskforce including civil rights leaders and attorneys scrutinizes legacy of centuries of injustice
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