“I’ve never seen a more insidious, inane, exploitive, and cruel plan put forth to the American public. You’re asking non-slave owners to pay people who were never slaves $5 million per black guy in San Francisco. The average household is going to have to pay $600,000.” Siyamak sits down with Tony Hall, a former supervisor…

News Analysis The uncertain legality of paying reparations for slavery and its legacies came into focus two weeks ago when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions nationwide. But while some see the ruling as a major setback for the reparations movement, it isn’t likely to deter its advocates, who say that…

Commentary The recently released Full Final Report of the California Reparations Task Force has revealed nothing new, considering what I have reported previously in The Epoch Times. The basic problem all along remains: Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature cynically launched this initiative even though: a) the state of California never had slavery; b)…

After two years of internal discussions, public hearings, and collaboration with stakeholders, California’s reparations task force presented its final report of recommendations to the Legislature June 29. The 1,100-page, 4-inch document discusses policy recommendations for the Legislature to consider, and while no specific dollar amounts are proposed, formulas for calculating harms and repairs are included…

CHICAGO—On a rainy Friday in South Shore, presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy listened as a group of mostly black Chicagoans voiced concerns about incoming illegal immigrants, reparations for slavery, and more. He showed up after locals objected to the planned placement of those illegal immigrants at a shuttered high school nearby. Footage of a protest against…

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) introduced a resolution on May 17 calling for $14 trillion in reparations over the U.S. history of slavery. The resolution is meant to seek awareness on a measure, H.R. 40, which has been introduced in every Congress for decades, that would establish a federal commission to study the issue of slavery…

Commentary In the United States, calls for reparations are, once again, heating up. A Duke University professor recently called for $14 trillion in reparations for the descendants of American slavery (roughly $350,000 per recipient). The professor, William Darity, isn’t the only one calling for reparations. The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, has established a task…

Commentary What a missed opportunity. On Saturday, the California Reparations Task Force issued its final recommendations (pdf) for “any form of compensation to African Americans, with a special consideration for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.” Those are the words from Assembly Bill 3121, the 2020 law establishing the…

Commentary It is here! From the time Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law implementing a task force on reparations in 2020, it was inevitable that this day would come. The task force has proposed that the state pay an estimated $800 billion to the state’s black residents. Newsom has had a long time to plan…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said that reconciling with descendants of slaves in the United States is about “more than cash payments” after his Reparations Task Force recommended millions of dollars in compensation to black residents of the state. In a statement to Fox News Digital on May 9, Newsom said that the nine-member task force’s independent…