SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California cemented a major milestone earlier this year when a government-appointed committee recommended that Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved people.
Now, advocates for reparations want to sustain their momentum by urging Newsom to veto a bill that would give the committee more time to finish its mandate to evaluate how the state should compensate Black people for decades of discrimination.
The current deadline for the reparations task force report is July 1, 2023, but legislation sits on Newsom’s desk that could push back the deadline to July 1, 2024.
