On Tuesday, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to accept a sweeping 170-page Reparations Action Plan and to establish a permanent standing committee to oversee its implementation. The plan does not include direct cash payments for most residents. Instead, it targets systemic inequities through 44 phased policy recommendations…
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Charleston Reparations Task Force
They’re Hosting Weddings on Stolen Land. Charleston Descendants Fight to Reclaim What Slavery Took.
Direct descendants of enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina are demanding the transfer of more than 7,000 acres of former plantation land, and they are giving the owners 40 days to respond. Charlotte Drayton is a white descendant of plantation owners. She is joining the fight. “I have always felt…