California Task Force Estimates Black Residents Owed $569 Billion In Reparations

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By Melissa Noel· Updated December 5, 2022

In a report on the long-term consequences of slavery and systemic racism on Black residents in California, the state’s reparations task force estimates that a massive $569 billion is due to descendants of enslaved people.

The nine-member panel determined that qualifying Black Californians would be eligible for $223,200 each as compensationfor housing discrimination practices used between 1933 and 1977, according to a report in

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