LA City Council Throws Support Behind Reparations for Black Americans

LA City Council Throws Support Behind Reparations for Black Americans
In this file photo, a protest organizer leads chants during a rally on Juneteenth, a holiday to mark the end of slavery, in San Francisco, Calif., on June 19, 2020. Vivian Lin/AFP via Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a motion on April 12 to support Assembly Bill 3121, California state legislation that created a task force to study and develop reparation protocols for black Americans.

AB 3121, known as the “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” was passed in 2020 and established the group to “identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States from 1619 to 1865,” according to the bill text.

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