The commission will have 12 months from the date of its first meeting to issue a report with recommended actions to provide reparations to Black New Yorkers, to address the long-standing effects of the legacy of slavery.
During an interview with City Limits, commission member Jennifer Jones-Austin explained that the group had to implement 'the coordinating structure' for their work before officially meeting.
Trevor Smith, a young organizer with New Yorkers for Reparations, is at the forefront of the grassroots effort to build public support for reparations and for New York State's Commission itself.
When the recommendations come out, legislators still have to write bills and get those bills signed, based on the recommendations. And so there has to be an advocacy apparatus that is pushing legislators to actually turn these recommendations into legislation.
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