California Reparations Task Force Recommends Payments for Qualifying Black Residents   The California Reparations Task Force suggested during a public meeting in Oakland, California, that the state should offer payments of up to $1.2 million to qualified Black residents and formally apologize to them. The task force, consisting of nine members, will send this recommendation to the state's legislators.  Representative Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who attended the meeting, emphasized the moral justifiability of reparations and their potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities. Furthermore, the panel's recommendation provides specific payment breakdowns for various types of historical discrimination. For instance, Black residents who experienced redlining by banks would receive $3,366 each year they lived in California between the early 1930s and the late 1970s. The total payment for those living in the state during this period would be up to $148,099. Here a...

Amherst Massachusetts Survey For Reparations  An anonymous survey is being conducted in Amherst to gather residents' views on race and reparations, marking the first time the African Heritage Reparation Assembly is seeking input from a large cross-section of the community to develop specific recommendations on how to address past racial injustices in the town. The survey, which takes less than 10 minutes to complete, is part of the assembly's efforts to develop reparation proposals for people of African heritage in Amherst by the 2020 resolution "Affirming the Town of Amherst's Commitment to End Structural Racism and Achieve Racial Equity for Black Residents." The survey will help determine how the expected $2 million collected over ten years for reparations initiatives should be spent. The report is due to the Town Council by the end of June. It will explore whether residents support a dedicated reparations fund, eligibility criteria for reparations, and options ...

The life path one and natural born leader, Martin Luther King, would want reparations for the nation builders and descendants of those builders who still are under harsh living conditions. The wealth disparities have become just as large, if not larger than what they were in 1968.   " 1968 : Adjusted for inflation, middle-class Black families had an average household wealth of about $6,600 in 1968 compared to around $71,000 in wealth for white middle-class households, according to the Survey of Consumer Finances (a 10.7 times greater amount)."(Adrianna J, Forbes, 2023, para 11).   According to Brian L(2022) " The richest 1% now own 40% of wealth ( Saez and Zucman 2016 ), and the share of households with no or negative wealth is rising ( Keister and Moller 2000 ; Pfeffer and Schoeni 2016 )" (para. 4).  Whether it is workplace discrimination, unjust hiring practices, or lack of being able to go back to school due to financial constraints, the barriers are ...