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A Look at What California Has Done So Far About Reparations

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2020 to create a statewide panel to study reparations for Black Californians. By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times — When Gov. Gavin…

December 9, 2022

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Democrats won the California recall by invoking Trump. There’s more of that coming

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Philip Elliott, TIME — He wasn’t on the ballot, but ex-President Donald Trump lost Republicans their hopes of recalling California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The result signals bad fortune…

September 15, 2021

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Commentary, Articles and Essays by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Thank You, Black Women

By Dr. Julianne MalveauxDr. Julianne Malveaux

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — When California governor Gavin Newsom woke up on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, I hope he fell to his knees and said, “Thank you, God, thank…

September 15, 2021

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Commentary, Articles and Essays by Dr. Maulana Karenga

Resisting the Republican Recall: Not Confusing Need with Anger at Newsom

By Dr. Maulana KarengaDr. Maulana Karenga

By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever issues Democrats, progressives, liberals, independents and others have with Gov. Gavin Newsom, they should not confuse or conflate it with the urgent and essential…

September 2, 2021

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A receipt for the purchase of an 18-year-old enslaved woman named Jane for $4,300. The document was captured from a Confederate ship during the Civil War.

My ancestor was in the slave trade. As California considers reparations, what do I owe?

By IBW21Reparations

By Lois Requist, Desert Sun — The receipt for the sale of a 9-year-old girl. That, and Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, got my attention. Until…

August 16, 2021

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Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego.

Newsom gets bills to study slavery reparations, require diverse corporate boards

By IBW21Reparations

By Dustin Gardiner and Alexei Koseff, SF Chronicles — California legislators approved a bill that would create a task force to study reparations for slavery for African Americans, a measure intended to eliminate disparities that linger more than 150 years after an economic and social system that kept Black people in bondage was banished. Separately, lawmakers also sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom requiring corporations in the state to…

September 3, 2020

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