The California Reparations Task Force voted to recommend reviving a modern version of the Freedmen’s Bureau — an agency created in 1865 to assist previously enslaved Black people — to administer benefits related to reparations in the state.
During its most recent hearing, the California Reparations Task Force voted to recommend reviving a modern version of the Freedmen’s Bureau — an all-encompassing agency created in 1865 to assist previously enslaved Black people — to administer any benefits related to reparations in the state.
The task force said its recommendations for reparations would include monetary compensation and the installation of programs to address long-standing systemic inequalities. Establishing centralized oversight to these proposals was a top concern to both the task force and the individuals who attended the public hearings.
“We know the Legislature is going to do what it wants,” Moore said. “Why shouldn’t we go as large as possible?”
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