The State of California accepts responsibility for the role we played in promoting, facilitating, and permitting the institution of slavery, as well as its enduring legacy of persistent racial disparities.
California is now taking another important step forward in recognizing the grave injustices of the past -- and making amends for the harms caused.
California sanctioned slavery and approved policies and practices that thwarted Black people from owning homes and starting businesses. Black families were terrorized.
California's new reparations legislation is part of a broader effort to address decades of racial disparities and policies that have harmed African American communities.
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