A newly formed Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery will administer reparations in the state of California after Gavin Newsom just approved that bureau's creation, but there's still no word on what the reparations will look like. The City and County of San Francisco discussed the idea of reparations for Black residents for a while in 2023, which drew negative national headlines for the fact that they discussed $5 million lump sum payments for descendants of slaves.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed its formal guidance to Bridget Phillipson, the minister for women and equalities as well as the education secretary, who must now decide whether to accept it. One EHRC source said that while the decision-making on the guidance was restricted to a small group of people around the group's outgoing chair, Kishwer Falkner, the expectation was that it would closely reflect interim advice released by the watchdog in April.