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Ariana Drehsler/CalMattersNext Thursday, California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations plans to hand over to the state Legislature its extensive report and recommendations for how to compensate eligible Black Californians for the enduring harms of slavery. -
Martin do Nascimento/CalMattersThe reparations task force meets Saturday in Oakland. It may vote to recommend a state apology and payments to African Americans based on years living in state.
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The festival was held to celebrate America's newest national holiday. Juneteenth marks June 19th, 1865, when enslaved African-Americans in Texas got news — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued — that they were free. -
The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.
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House Bill 2168 will officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday in Oregon beginning June 19, 2022.
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It's been more than a century and a half since slavery was legal in the United States. But 250 years of captivity built up some feelings and habits we…
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It's a grim anniversary, but certainly one worth noting: the arrival of African slaves in Virginia in August, 1619. So 400 years since the door opened…
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It is one of the most significant dates in American history: June 19, 1865. That is the day that Union troops arriving in South Texas informed the…
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Racism is a hot topic in our times (as if it ever really cooled down). And a historical perspective helps us better understand the very concept of race.…
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Abraham Lincoln made his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but the Civil War and slavery dragged on for two more years. It was not until June 19, 1865,…
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We shudder to think that our country was once home to the practice of slavery, and that we fought a civil war over it. And we're not quite done…
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Maybe we're finally getting away from the idea of different races, but in no great hurry. Remember, people once referred to "the Jewish race," among other…
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We all know the story of pre-Civil War America: there were slave states and free states.But the line between them got a lot blurrier in the newer…
