California became the first U.S. state to pass into law a reparations task force and, just last year ... justice,” said the State Senator Akilah Weber Pierson, chair of the California State ...

The number is unknown, for one thing, because California was never ... up the permanently staffed reparations agency called for by a nine-member reparations task force set up under an earlier ...

“This bill is essential for the successful implementation of the California reparations task force’s final recommendations,” Weber Pierson said in a bill analysis. “To establish eligibility for the ...

The legislation package is the result of recommendations proposed in a 2023 report from the California Reparations Task Force ... Black Caucus Chairwoman Weber Pierson. “The fact that ...