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.

Morris Griffin holds a sign at the Reparations Task Force hearing at the March Fong Eu Secretary of State offices in Sacramento on June 29, 2023. (File photo by Semantha Norris/CalMatters) This story ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers and advocates are regrouping to determine how they will move forward in the effort to ensure reparative ...

Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, D- CA 39, poses in this undated photo. The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving reparations ...

Richie Greenberg, one of the plaintiffs suing San Francisco over its reparations fund, claimed the measure is divisive because it solely favors Black residents. "It is dividing the city rather than ...

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 ...