The Reparations Over Everything Coalition (ROEC) held a powerful press conference outside Governor Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles office downtown on Oct. 3.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is the official transportation partner for the 2024 Taste of Soul. This year, avoid the heat and the traffic and take a cool comfortable ride on the Metro K Line to the festival on Crenshaw Boulevard. Learn more about the Metro K-Line and additional transportation programs.
Zaya Campbell is the winner of the 30th Annual Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant, announced Lisa Ruffin, LMAA founder and the judges.
Local residents can witness the work of the California Reparations Task Force during the two-day meeting planned on Friday, Sept. 23, and Saturday, Sept. 24, at Paradise Baptist Church in South Los Angeles.
One year to the day since making its historic debut, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans delivered its anticipated interim report to the California legislature. Responding to the release, Black reparations activists are encouraging Black Californians to read the report and share their reactions with the task force during a series of upcoming listening sessions scheduled both in Northern and Southern California.
Primaries will be held June 7 for four positions on the California Board of Equalization, all 80 seats in the State Assembly, and 20 State Senate seats. Half of the 40 State Senate seats are subject to election every two years. The 20 even numbered districts are on ballots this year.
The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans held its ninth meeting on April 13 and it continues through April 14 at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco.
The California Task Force to Study and Development Reparations Proposal for African Americans will pay homage to Black History Month as well as African American heroes who initiated the fight for reparations – and kept it alive over the years — in the United States.
One day after Darrick Hamilton testified before California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, the panel decided that it would not enter into a contractual agreement with the noted economist.
In June, California launched the nation’s first Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans this year. The nine-member committee was established to meet the requirements of Assembly Bill (AB) 3121, which California Secretary of State Shirley Weber authored and introduced in 2020 when she served in the Legislature. Gov. Newsom signed it into law in September 2020. “This is a debt that is owed, just because it hasn’t been paid doesn’t mean it goes away,” said the newly elected chair of the California reparations task force Kamilah V. Moore. At the task force’s first meeting on June