What would it cost to atone for U.S. slavery and generations of systemic racism? San Francisco supervisors set to hear committee's dream-big recommendations of $5M per person, guaranteed $97,000 annual income and a $1 house.
These are just some of the recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with a thorny question: What would it take to atone for the
centuries of U.S. slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and
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