New York’s reparations commission will hold its third meeting in New Rochelle and Syracuse on Tuesday as it prepares to study the lasting harms of slavery and discrimination on Black New Yorkers and recommend solutions.
The webcast meeting is in two distant spots because its nine appointees come from across the state, and three will meet at each of the two locations. Its purpose is to detail the panel’s steps for conducting the study , which is expected to take place over the next nine months and was funded with $5 million in this year’s state budget.
New York is the second state, after California, to create a panel to study ways to make reparations to Black Americans for the legacy of enslavement and discrimination. Several cities also have explored the idea or plan to do so. The New York City Council voted last month to have the city’s Commission on Racial Equity suggest remedies by 2027, working in cooperation with the state reparations panel.