California approves reparations payments and state apology for Black residents.

California's reparations task force has approved recommendations that could result in billions of dollars in restitution to Black Californians for decades of state-sanctioned discrimination. The proposal will be sent to state lawmakers by July 1 and represents the most sweeping effort to date to recompense Black Americans for centuries of racist policies. The next challenge facing reparations activists will be to persuade fellow Californians to get behind the most expensive reparations plan for Black Americans proposed by a government body.