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A special report on California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations for African Americans

Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at marching with the Collectif International Pan Africain at U.N. headquarters in Switzerland, holding a poster of artwork reading "Reparations" by Emory Douglas.

California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations was created in September of 2020, making it first and only state to study the institution of slavery and its harms and to devise a plan as to how to provide reparations. An initial report came out earlier this summer, and a reparations proposal is due by July 2023 for the state legislature to consider turning into law. Jeannine Etter has this report.

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First aired on UpFront on November 17, 2022.

Jeannine Etter produced this story. Edited by Lucy Kang. Mixing support from Scott Baba. Music by Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at and Blue Dot Sessions.