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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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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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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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On Black Reparations: Attorney Donald K. Tamaki
March 2, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
From the historic coram nobis cases to the state task force to study Black reparations, attorney Donald K. Tamaki has been at the heart of landmark social justice issues for […] 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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Exploring the Black American path toward redress
April 15, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
“In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War there was a set of promises made to the formerly enslaved, including the promise of land and that Black folks would have […] READ MORE
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