Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans

The Lookout: Several Bills Aim to Level the Playing Field for Disadvantaged Californians

Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black MediaMarch 25, 2021

Senate Bill (SB)17, which is scheduled for an Assembly committee hearing March 23, would declare racism as a health crisis in California and develop a state government “Office of Racial Equity in the State Department of Public Health for purposes of aligning state resources, decision-making, and programs to accomplish certain goals related to health equity and protecting vulnerable communities.”

California Black Caucus Introduces Reparations Bill

Tanu Henry, California Black MediaMay 14, 2020

On May 11, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee voted yes on a bill that would mandate the state to set up an eight-member commission to examine how California engaged in — and benefited from — the enslavement of Black men, women and children.