California’s reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.
The panel also approved a section of the draft report saying reparations should include “cash or its equivalent” for eligible residents.
Elaine Brown, former Black Panther Party chairwoman, urged people to express their frustrations through demonstrations. Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former Democratic assemblymember, authored legislation in 2020 creating the task force with a focus on the state’s historical culpability for harms against African Americans, and not as a substitute for any additional reparations that may come from the federal government.
The Chicago suburb of Evanston, for example, has offered housing vouchers to Black residents but few have benefited from the program so far.
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