Situational politics led the California governor approved a comprehensive study in 2020, who now resists helping descendants of slaves.

In September 2020,  amid the national uproar over the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his ...

I felt like we were kind of misled as a task force in terms of level (of) engagement', said one member of a reparations task ...

Rosenhall points to the core headwinds: cost, law, and politics. A majority of Americans oppose taxpayer-funded reparations; ...

Fueled by racial justice protests in 2020, a bill to study slavery reparations for Black Americans appeared to gain some traction in Congress for the first time in decades. But President Joe Biden ...

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, speaks about his reparations bill on the Assembly floor on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed measures with potential economic benefits.

Five years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom set in motion a process that would place on his desk a series of bills to advance reparations for California’s descendants of slavery. Their arrival has revealed the ...