LIVE UPDATES: The California Reparations Task Force will release an extensive report and recommendations for compensating eligible Black residents for the harms of slavery, racism and discriminatory policies.
California's final report, chock full of history of Black people in the state and all its recommendations for redress, will come in at 1,200 pages. That's more than double the midpoint report the task force issued last year.Follow live coverage of reactions to the affirmative action ruling from the Supreme Court and more.Curtis Bunn
“I would encourage them to read the final report and to understand that the legacy of enslavement and the ongoing harms are with us to this very day. And so this country is disingenuous. First, they use race to exclude us and now they’re refusing to use race to include us.” While calls for reparations in America date to slavery’s abolition in the 1860s, in 1989 Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced what would become H.R. 40 to study slavery, its effects and appropriate remedies. Conyers introduced the legislation at the beginning of each congressional session for nearly three decades .
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