California reparations panel OKs state apology, payments [apnews.com]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 5/10/231:33 PM

By Sophie Austin, Photo: Sophie Austin/AP News, Associated Press, May 6, 2023

California’s reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.

The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, gave final approval at a meeting in Oakland to a hefty list of proposals that now go to state lawmakers to consider for reparations legislation.

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, who is cosponsoring a bill in Congress to study restitution proposals for African Americans, at the meeting called on states and the federal government to pass reparations legislation.

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Robert OlcottMember

Hopefully, Barbara Lee's committee will avail itself of the 'Homework-already done' by the (Canadian) 'Aboriginal Healing Foundation' (A copy is available at our [U.S.] NCPTSD Library in White River Junction, Vermont) ...

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