California Reparations Panel Votes on Historic Proposals for Black Residents.

California's reparations task force has approved recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies. The proposals range from the creation of a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people to calculations on what the state owes them in compensation. The task force approved a public apology acknowledging the state's responsibility for past wrongs and promising the state will not repeat them. The proposals are far from implementation, however, and some estimates from economists have projected that the state could owe upwards of $800 billion in reparations to Black people.