Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale)

Jobs, Mental Health, Gun Violence: Cal Leaders Discuss Helping Black Men and Boys

Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black MediaSeptember 16, 2021

The California Assembly’s Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color held a meeting last month that brought legislators face-to-face with community organizers to discuss investing in African American and other youth of color in a “post-pandemic California.”

California Assembly Passes Bill to Set Up Reparations Task Force

Tanu Henry, California Black MediaJune 18, 2020

The “reparations” bill calls for the creation of a task force to study and propose ideas for how African Americans in California can be compensated for slavery and its “after lives,” as the author of the legislation, Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), describes the Jim Crow laws and other forms of injustice and state-sanctioned discrimination that have existed in the United States from 1865 until now.