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California’s Reparations Task Force: An Unapologetic Call for Racial Justice

California’s Reparations Task Force: An Unapologetic Call for Racial Justice

In 2020 California Secretary of State Shirley Weber put forward California Assembly Bill 3121. The bill’s passage established the first-in-a-nation task force to study reparations. Reparations seek to right the wrongs of the past, ensure that our children are not victims of the same injustices we have suffered, and heal as a nation.

Black Migration, the “Red Summer,” and the “Red Scare” of 1919

Black Migration, the “Red Summer,” and the “Red Scare” of 1919

Black Activism and the Communist and Socialist Parties of the early Twentieth Century by Darius Spearman As new immigrants arrived from Eastern Europe during World War I, many African Americans found value in the insights and philosophies that these new arrivals...