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Abené Clayton in Los Angeles

California’s first-in-nation reparations taskforce releases final report

People line up to speak during a reparations taskforce meeting in San Francisco in April 2022.
People line up to speak during a reparations taskforce meeting in San Francisco in April 2022. Photograph: Janie Har/AP

California’s first-in-the-nation reparations taskforce released its final report with recommendations for how the state should atone for its history of racial violence and discrimination against Black residents on Thursday.

This document, which could serve as a national model for how governments can attempt to right the wrongs of the past, marks the end of a nearly three-year effort that began in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing reckoning around systemic racism and anti-Blackness in the US.

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