San Francisco Task Force Will Consider Reparations For Black Residents

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a committee on Tuesday to study how the city could provide reparations for its Black residents. The 15 member African American Reparations Advisory Committee will take two years to come up with a plan for compensating those whose ancestors were enslaved or discriminated against by Jim Crow laws. Forum will discuss what reparations could look like for San Francisco, who could get them and what it will take to make it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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