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The city joins a growing number of cities and states, including New York, that are taking action to examine the effects of slavery and possible reparations. By Jeffery C. Mays Almost 200 years ...
NYC Council passes bill to study reparations 02:10. NEW YORK - New York City Council members passed legislation Thursday aimed at acknowledging, studying and addressing the impact of slavery and ...
New York is the latest city to study reparations. Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a notorious massacre of Black residents took place in 1921, announced a similar commission last month.
— New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy ...
New York may be poised to study the generational impacts of slavery through a new commission to consider reparations for Black residents. State lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that would ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday that establishes a commission to study racial justice and reparations. “This commission acknowledges the horrific injustice of slavery and ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday to create a new commission to study reparations and racial justice.. The state commission will be tasked with examining the legacy of slavery ...
City & State caught up with Brisport just in time for Black History Month – when he hopes to pass the bill – to discuss the details of the commission, the possibilities of what reparations could look ...
In the 1700s, New York had the largest slave population of any American city, after Charleston. Enslaved African Americans were at the heart of the city’s workforce, tilling land, building roads ...
The city’s mayor, London Breed, who is Black, has not committed to cash reparations and her office has indicated that the federal government is better suited to handle reparations. New York has ...
New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on ...