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California Reparations Legislation Is Back Reparations advocates in the California State Legislature introduced and amended several bills to benefit descendants of enslaved persons. Efforts to implement reparations legislation during the last legislative session largely fell short, particularly with attempts to establish a new Freedmen Affairs Age ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America's history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantage a ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America's history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantage a ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America's history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantage a ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America's history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility. There are those who believe, as Ibram X. Kendi wrote, that "the reme ...

Five months after Minnesota farmer Lance Nistler filed a federal lawsuit with Pacific Legal Foundation's help, Minnesota removed race- and sex-based preferences from its Down Payment Assistance Grant Program.   PLF's participation in Lance's case raised eyebrows among Minnesota progressives: Writing in the Minnesota Reformer, Sigrid Jewett acc ...

California legislators are considering a bill that gives the government the authority to choose winners and losers based solely on their race. According to the Little Hoover Commission, as of 2016, one in five Californians are required to obtain an occupational license before they are allowed to earn a living in their chosen career field. This c ...

Mike Yoder, founder of Drone Deer Recovery Inc., is an entrepreneur. He saw a problem and came up with a innovative solution. Yoder founded his business in October 2022 to help hunters locate their downed game using advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). Wounded deer and other game run off a significant distance after a hunt, often into den ...

The California Reparations Task Force hopes that its final report and recommendations will be "an example for not only other states but this nation as a whole..." Berkeley Unified School District is among those hoping to take its cues from the state task force. But because the state task force's recommendations advantage or disadvantage students ...