SACRAMENTO, Calif. � Members of California's Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations. State legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be paid or for any policy changes to be adopted.
From left, State Sen. Steven Bradford, Secretary of State Shirley Weber, task force member Lisa Holder and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer hold up a final report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans on Thursday.
Haven Daley, Associated Press
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Morris Griffin, of Los Angeles speaks during the public comment portion of the Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, Calif., on March 3.
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A crowd listens to speakers at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco, on March 14.
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