Activists are demanding reparations for land in the Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles that currently sits under Dodger Stadium, part of a broader movement across California that has focused thus far on African Americans.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would provide a federal reparations program for black Americans.
Children in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) returned to classes Tuesday after the teachers’ union reached a tentative agreement with the school board that includes “reparations” for slavery.
California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans has recommended a massive program to address past housing discrimination, including the review of local real estate ordinances.
Oakland teachers and the Oakland Unified School District reached agreement on Saturday evening on providing “reparations” for slavery for black students, though an ongoing strike still continues.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) now says he is open to the idea of cash reparations for slavery, after he indicated several days ago he was opposed to the idea, which was recommended by his own task force on the issue.
Furious parents marched their children across picket lines of striking teachers in Oakland, California, on Friday on the seventh day of a strike in which teachers are demanding reparations for slavery, among other demands.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) backed away Tuesday from the idea of paying reparations to descendants of slaves, after a state panel he signed into law calculated the state was liable for hundreds of billions of dollars.
Teachers in Oakland public schools are on strike for the third day on Monday, leaving children in the lurch — the latest example of a failing system propped up by the same political forces calling for “reparations” today.
Reparations for black residents in California are forecasted to cost $800 billion — more than twice the cost of the state’s entire annual budget, but activists say that is not enough.
A Denver city councilwoman facing a runoff election in June said white-owned businesses should pay reparations for the sins of slavery.
A panel set up by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in 2020 approved recommendations Saturday in Oakland for reparations for slavery and an apology, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
Black residents of California should be given a slavery reparation “down payment” as soon as possible, a slavery task force has told the state.
California’s official reparations task force has estimated that black residents of the state are owed $1.2 million each in compensation for the legacy of slavery, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
The estimated cost of reparations for slavery in California — which entered the Union as a free state in 1850 — has risen to $800 billion, 2.5 times the annual state budget, say economists advising a state committee.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Shamann Walton urged his colleagues Tuesday to approve $50 million for an “Office of Reparations” in anticipation of eventual approval of a bigger reparations plan.
Former Black Lives Matter activist Xavier DuRousseau said Wednesday Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle.” said San Francisco’s “unrealistic” reparations plan, saying it’s a way to “gaslight” black Americans.
The Associated Press (AP) appeared to defend San Francisco’s proposal to grant $5 million in reparations to each long-term black resident of the city on Wednesday, pushing back against residents who dared question the idea.
California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount floated as the highest possibility last year.
No mathematical calculations justify a San Francisco committee’s recent proposal to provide $5 million in reparations to long-term black residents of the city, according to a report by the Washington Post.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) stated that Shelby County, Tennessee considering using federal coronavirus relief funds on reparations programs is an abuse of money that was allocated in the name of
Activists are upset that the Bruce family, which received oceanfront property last year that was unjustly taken from its forebears by the government, has now sold it back to Los Angeles County for $20 million.
Disney’s Hulu docuseries “The 1619 Project” has put a price tag on slavery reparations for black Americans. The final bill for U.S. taxpayers will come to about $14 trillion — and that, one “expert” says, is letting America off easy.
The controversial reparations committee in San Francisco had to postpone a meeting after one of its members got stuck in Colombia.
California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber said that the Golden State can “lead the nation” by passing reparations for the descendants of black slaves.
The Disney+ animated kids series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is pushing reparations for slavery, claiming in its latest episode that America was founded on “white supremacy” and “still has not atoned” for its racism. In the episode titled “Juneteenth,”
Kamilah V. Moore, the chair of California’s reparations committee, posted several tweets over the weekend that supported taxing the wealthy, or raising estate and property taxes, to pay for payments to black recipients.
California’s reparations task force met Friday and was told by one speaker that the suggested $223,000 per resident is not enough.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL-R) is a “full-blown white supremacist” for banning from Florida’s schools an African American studies AP course.
Richie Greenberg, former independent mayoral candidate in San Francisco, California, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that the majority of the city’s residents have “no hope for a return” to the normalcy of its “pre-pandemic” status quo.
A San Francisco committee to study the idea of paying reparations for slavery has proposed that each long-term black resident of the city receive $5 million, though California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
Multiple House Democrats are reportedly pushing again for reparations and a national apology for slavery, according to Fox News.
The Church of England announced that it has committed £100 million in a reparations-style package for its role in the historical slave trade.
Black Californians should each receive $1 million and black people who are homeless should be first in line, according to the state’s Reparations Task Force chair.
Barbados may seek reparations from Benedict Cumberbatch’s family for owning slaves, as the actor’s ancestors owned a slave plantation on the island during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Outspoken actor and comedian Faizon Love believes the reparations money that California is planning on giving to black residents will ultimately be wasted, saying the cash will be used to buy flashy cars.
An activist and political candidate warned a California state committee on reparations for slavery this week that there will be a “serious backlash” unless the state agrees to pay $800,000 to every eligible recipient.
Activists are demanding California pay black residents and black-owned businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars each in reparations.
California’s committee to discus reparations for slavery will meet Wednesday in Oakland to discuss eligibility requirements for payments from the state — a state that entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
Jordan E. Cooper’s Broadway production of ‘Ain’t No Mo’ is closing less than three weeks after its opening day.
