Alameda County Reparations Plan Advances, Critics Say: ‘California Was Never a Slave State’

The California county is prioritizing housing, economic opportunity and institutional reform over immediate cash payments.

*A new reparations plan in Alameda County is moving forward without an immediate promise of direct payments to Black residents, the New York Post reports.

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County supervisors voted unanimously on June 30 to adopt the proposal, making Alameda the first California county to approve a reparations program of this scope. The decision followed more than two years of study, public meetings and community input…

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