California's Black reparations panel approves recommendations for billions in payments.

California's reparations task force has approved recommendations for compensating and apologizing to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies. The proposals include the creation of a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people and calculations on what the state owes them in compensation. The task force also approved a public apology acknowledging the state's responsibility for past wrongs and promising the state will not repeat them. The proposals now go to state lawmakers to consider for reparations legislation.