By Soumya Karlamangla, Photo: Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press, The New York Times, March 4, 2022
If California were to provide reparations for Black residents, who exactly should qualify for the payments?
That’s a question that has stumped the expert panel in charge of California’s historic reparations effort, the first undertaking of its scale and one that could have major implications for the rest of the nation.
In 2020, California approved legislation to accomplish a tall order: Establish a “task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans, with a special consideration for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.”
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