Across several states around America, there has been a push to delve into the historical impacts chattel slavery has had on the nation and people who descended from slaves who still live in the United States. In the Empire State, the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies was created in 2023 after the New York State Legislature passed a law to examine reparations and address the long-term harms of slavery and its impact on African American New Yorkers going back to the early 1600s.