Officials in Alameda County, California, have green-lit a sweeping reparations action plan, stepping in after a school district within the county — in Oakland — reportedly failed to deliver on its own highly publicized racial equity promises.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on June 30 to accept a comprehensive reparations action plan, capping more than two years of research and community outreach. Designed to address decades of systemic discrimination against Black residents, the plan takes an institutional reform approach rather than focusing primarily on direct individual cash payouts…