Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, speaks about his reparations bill on the Assembly floor on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025.

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key first steps toward reparations for Black Californians whose ancestors were ...

Among the 2026 California gubernatorial candidates, none appear to be a champion of reparations, even in the form of direct cash payments. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, many of the ...

Are you curious about which reparations in California? Learn more here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1050, a bill that would’ve created a state process for reviewing claims from people who ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a handful of bills advancing the cause of reparations for Black Californians on Monday, dealing the latest blow to a first-of-its-kind movement to atone for state-inflicted ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers and advocates are regrouping to determine how they will move forward in the effort to ensure reparative ...

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Five years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom set in motion a process that would place on his desk a series of bills to advance reparations for California's descendants of slavery. Their arrival has revealed the ...

Morris Griffin holds a sign at the Reparations Task Force hearing at the March Fong Eu Secretary of State offices in Sacramento on June 29, 2023. (File photo by Semantha Norris/CalMatters) This story ...