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Investors keep up diversity pressure after California law tossed - Roll Call

After a California judge rejected a state law requiring board diversity, investors said they would continue to push companies to change.

Roll Call · Apr 7, 2022

California’s reparations effort moves ahead. Here’s what’s next

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Reparations Task Force voted Tuesday to define those who are eligible for reparations as descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S. or of free Black people living in the country before the end of the 19th century.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 30, 2022

Who should receive reparations in California for slavery? Answers raise more questions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Antoinette Harrell has spent nearly three decades of her life verifying cases of slavery in the South before and after emancipation.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 30, 2022