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Weeks before her due date, first-time mother Erica Jimenez sought help with her pregnancy. Yet Jimenez was excluded from California's Black Infant Health Program because she was not the right race. When Jimenez attempted to access the program, a representative told her that the program was not for her and offered to show her other resources. Exc ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would have provided benefits to California descendants of enslaved persons. For instance, the bill would have offered descendants of enslaved persons college a ...

California Gets New Bureaucracy, Falls Short of Other Goals   Governor Gavin Newsom once again vetoed several bills that would have provided benefits to descendants of enslaved persons in California. The governor rejected measures that would have given descendants a college admission preference, priority licensing, homebuying assistance, and comp ...

Suing for reparations in Wichita An activist is suing the City of Wichita and its city council in federal court for not considering a reparations ordinance. Mary Dean's pro se lawsuit alleges that the city council directed Dean to present her proposed ordinance to the Diversity, Inclusion, and Civil Rights Advisory Board instead of presenting it b ...

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 and ...

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 and ...

I recently received a startling email from an attorney, demanding that I "cease and desist" speaking out against reparations for black Americans. First, some background: For decades, Pacific Legal Foundation has been reporting and speaking out against government efforts to reward or disadvantage individuals based on their race. That includes rep ...

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 ...