reparations
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‘Just the beginning’: California reparations backers applaud bills, even without big cash payouts
February 15, 2024 by Cal Matters
A group of California lawmakers is tackling reparations for Black descendants of enslaved people with a set of bills modeled after recommendations that a state reparations task force spent years […] READ MORE
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Film documents those who were forcibly removed but not incarcerated in Hawai‘i
February 15, 2024 by Nichi Bei News
The little-known World War II story of more than 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry, who were forcibly removed from their homes in Hawai‘i but not incarcerated, is movingly captured in […] READ MORE
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Historic work on Black reparations moves to the California Legislature
July 6, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
SACRAMENTO — Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers June 29, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate […] READ MORE
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California reparations panel OKs state apology, payments
May 11, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
OAKLAND, Calif. — California’s reparations task force voted May 6 to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by […] READ MORE
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California reparations amount, if any, left to politicians
April 13, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
SAN FRANCISCO — The leader of California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force on March 29 said it won’t take a stance on how much the state should compensate Black residents whom […] READ MORE
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San Francisco board open to reparations with $5M payouts
March 16, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
SAN FRANCISCO — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years […] READ MORE
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Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations
March 2, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
SAN FRANCISCO — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to apologize to the families it imprisoned during World War II, Black […] READ MORE
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After groundbreaking slave reparations report, what next?
June 9, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
Reparations experts and advocates largely welcomed a move by California to publicly document its role in perpetuating discrimination against African Americans but wondered if the slew of recommendations in its […] READ MORE
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Bay Area Day of Remembrance calls for solidarity for reparations movements
March 3, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
The annual Bay Area Day of Remembrance once again focused on the ongoing fights for reparations against the United States government. The Feb. 19 evening program, entitled “No One is […] READ MORE
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Los Angeles Day of Remembrance stresses collective action for justice
March 3, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — The annual Los Angeles Day of Remembrance, commemorating the Feb. 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which authorized the forcible removal […] READ MORE
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