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The town is a remarkable part of the state’s history, yet many people have never heard of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922175,news_11840548,news_11916026\"]Allensworth and Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, founded in 1974\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/b>to honor the town’s history and Black Californians, have come up in several meetings of California’s Reparations Task Force, the group researching reparations for the harm caused by the legacy of slavery in the state. The task force will make a formal recommendation to the state Legislature next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been previous efforts to preserve and share Allensworth’s history and to revitalize the town’s economic base, but what might reparations look like? State Sen. Steven Bradford, a member of the Reparations Task Force, has referred to Allensworth as a ghost town. But a visit almost three months ago revealed a community determined to be recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak offered a special 50% discount for train passengers stopping at Allensworth for a celebration of Juneteenth, the national holiday that commemorates emancipation. Maxine Butler was among those who took advantage of the chance to visit the town, catching the train at 6 a.m. on June 11 from the Emeryville Amtrak station. The platform bustled with excitement and anticipation as people boarded the Bakersfield-bound train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who is from North Oakland, had received a terminal cancer diagnosis earlier that week. She said visiting Allensworth was on her bucket list. 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This is where this American odyssey begins for the hundreds of Black families … who unfortunately do not and cannot claim inheritance to a home that their ancestors created for them.’[/pullquote]Lt. Col. Allensworth had secured more than 9,000 acres “of the richest land in central California,” he wrote to Booker T. Washington. The settlement was on the main line of the Santa Fe Railway. According to Dean, Allensworth was the only transfer point between Los Angeles and Fresno at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In essence, it was a shining example of Black self-sufficiency and prosperity,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A railroad diverted\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, visitors can peek into the windows of each structure — the schoolhouse, the library and homes. The nearly 20 buildings are meant to look like they would have looked in 1908, complete with outhouses, furniture, books and even fake food in the kitchen of Lt. Col. Allensworth’s home. There’s a bizarre ghost-like quality to the buildings on days when there isn’t a celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a self-guided tour of sorts, visitors can call a number to hear a brief recording describing aspects of each building. The recording also describes the railroad station that connected Allensworth to the outside world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trains brought friends and relatives, mail supplies and building materials,” a recorded voice says. “Most important, freight shipments supported the town’s economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1914, a new stop was created in a neighboring white town and the number of shipments from Allensworth severely declined. That’s one of the factors that led to the town’s demise, according to Jerelyn Oliveira, who leads tours of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They added tracks over to the little community of Alpaugh, which is west of here by about seven miles,” she said. “All that agricultural product was being transported from Alpaugh instead of Allensworth. So the money started slowing down, dwindling, and then the trains stopped stopping here in 1929.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a bumper sticker that reads 'Visit California's Black Historic Town Allensworth'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1536x1257.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-2048x1676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1920x1571.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bumper sticker from Allensworth, circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925109/racism-robbed-this-historically-black-california-town-of-its-water-now-theyre-developing-water-of-their-own\">Water was another issue\u003c/a>. The Pacific Water Company built only four wells for Allensworth, compared to the 10 wells built for Alpaugh, according to a report released by the Reparations Task Force in June. Allensworth’s wells started drying up, and the water became contaminated. The settlers were “victims of a racist scam and were sold land that would never have enough water,” the report noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise Kadara’s mother, Nettie Morrison, moved Denise and her siblings to Allensworth in the ’70s. For almost four decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/6640864\">Morrison helped keep the memory of the town alive\u003c/a> through park events, like the Juneteenth celebration. Though she passed away in 2018, her children — including Kadara and her twin brother, Dennis Hutson — are continuing the legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want to do here is bring the community back, and make it a thriving community once again,” Kadara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pride and sadness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Butler disembarked the train in the blazing heat, she walked across the tracks to wait for the small bus to take her to the schoolhouse. There, Butler told the docents that she heard a story about how Gloria Harris, her sister-in-law’s mother, had carved her name into a desk. She didn’t find Harris’ name on a desk, but one of the school’s record books confirmed Harris did attend the one-room school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925095\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a schoolhouse\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-800x657.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-1020x838.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-1536x1261.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-2048x1682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0012-1920x1577.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of Allensworth Elementary School building, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several other visitors walked across the school’s creaky floorboards and examined the desks, including Latrice Hutchings, who took the train from Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels amazing. There’s a sense of nostalgia,” said Hutchings, who had previously visited the park a few weeks prior to the Juneteenth celebration. All of the buildings had been closed then, and she could only look through the windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome to be inside,” Hutchings continued. “You feel a little bit emotional and you feel a little proud, because you can see that they had a good life here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Autry, who boarded the train in the Bay Area, said she had mixed emotions being at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of want to cry,” she said. “Any time I’ve ever gone to a different plantation, it’s just the feeling of pride, of sadness, of how they made it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A road map to repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bradford, of the Reparations Task Force, is focused on bringing attention to the accomplishments of Black people and properties they owned at the turn of the century, such as Val Verde and Bruce’s Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]\u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/val-verde-black-palm-springs-castaic/11587364/\">Val Verde\u003c/a> was a Santa Clarita Valley city known as the “Black Palm Springs,” where Black people could buy property before World War II. Bruce’s Beach was the beachfront resort built in Manhattan Beach by Charles and Willa Bruce in 1912; the property was seized by the city, and the land owned by Los Angeles County until last year, when the property was transferred to the couple’s descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradford helped secure $40 million in the 2022 state budget for Allensworth, including $10 million for a teaching and innovation farm. According to The Sun Gazette\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2022/07/14/state-funding-seeks-to-restore-historic-black-town/\">$28 million will be used for a park visitor center and almost $2 million for a town civic center\u003c/a>. But Bradford believes there’s more to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a sunset over a desert town\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-566048923-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets on Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park in 2008. \u003ccite>(Barbara Davidson/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think it has a nexus to reparations,” he said. “To show what was promised but was never delivered, but also what we had that was stolen from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to know the full story. Far too often we look at where we are today and say, ‘Oh, things are great.’ But we’ve got to understand how we got here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dennis Hutson, son of Nettie Morrison, who moved to Allensworth in the 1970s\"]‘If you owed me $100 and you want to give me a dime, is that really reparations?’[/pullquote]Dennis Hutson, for his part, isn’t convinced the millions from the state budget will amount to reparations for the descendants of Allensworth settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like a good idea, but I just really wonder, is it really heartfelt?” Hutson said. “And if you owed me $100 and you want to give me a dime, is that really reparations?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the train ride back to Emeryville, I asked Butler how she was feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really bristle when I hear about ‘the first African American who did this,’” she said. “(It’s) always something that was hidden, that never was brought to the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lt. Col. Allensworth, who was enslaved in Kentucky before fleeing and becoming a Union soldier in the Civil War, was also a minister, educator and businessman. With his town, he hoped to create the “Tuskegee of the West,” according to Terrance Dean, a Black studies professor at Denison University in Ohio who has provided expert testimony to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906054/it-means-to-repair-what-you-should-know-about-reparations-for-black-californians\">California’s Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Booker T. Washington — a prominent Black leader in the early 20th century and the principal of Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University, a historically Black school in Alabama — Allensworth said the town would be “where African Americans would settle upon the bare desert and cause it to blossom as a rose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925050\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1718\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/GettyImages-576842560-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Lt. Col. Allensworth near an abandoned home in Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. \u003ccite>(Ted Streshinsky/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allensworth did blossom into a thriving town. But it had to rely on the state government and white-owned companies that controlled water distribution and the railroad, two lifelines that were soon snatched to squeeze Allensworth into submission — by 1920, the town was in severe decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Determined to be recognized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the more widely known 1921 incident in which a white mob destroyed the homes and businesses of prosperous Black residents in Tulsa, Okla., killing almost 40 people, there was Allensworth, a settlement decimated by racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a destination where Black people from around the country moved for safety and an opportunity to flourish, Allensworth is now a dusty Central Valley outpost with a population of roughly 500. The town is a remarkable part of the state’s history, yet many people have never heard of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Allensworth and Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, founded in 1974\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"> \u003c/b>to honor the town’s history and Black Californians, have come up in several meetings of California’s Reparations Task Force, the group researching reparations for the harm caused by the legacy of slavery in the state. The task force will make a formal recommendation to the state Legislature next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been previous efforts to preserve and share Allensworth’s history and to revitalize the town’s economic base, but what might reparations look like? State Sen. Steven Bradford, a member of the Reparations Task Force, has referred to Allensworth as a ghost town. But a visit almost three months ago revealed a community determined to be recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak offered a special 50% discount for train passengers stopping at Allensworth for a celebration of Juneteenth, the national holiday that commemorates emancipation. Maxine Butler was among those who took advantage of the chance to visit the town, catching the train at 6 a.m. on June 11 from the Emeryville Amtrak station. The platform bustled with excitement and anticipation as people boarded the Bakersfield-bound train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler, who is from North Oakland, had received a terminal cancer diagnosis earlier that week. She said visiting Allensworth was on her bucket list. She’d also recently learned that her sister-in-law’s family lived there for six years, until 1940.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler.jpg\" alt=\"an older woman sits on a train wearing a hat and sunglasses and looking out the window\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/02_Maxine_Butler-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxine Butler of Oakland rides an Amtrak train to visit Allensworth in June 2022. \u003ccite>(Lakshmi Sarah/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can only imagine the atmosphere at that time,” she said, referring to Allensworth’s beginnings. “Escaping the lynchings. Escaping the aftereffects of slavery. And they probably heard about this — this Jerusalem, this promised land called Allensworth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler has bright eyes and is a classical music singer who used to sing with the Oakland Symphony Chorus. She broke into song more than once as the train made its way through Central Valley towns during the 4.5-hour ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The importance of ‘home’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Homeownership is often the largest contributor to personal wealth in the United States. According to a Public Policy Institute of California data analysis, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-housing-divide/\">Black homeownership rate in California is at 36.8%\u003c/a>, about 26.4 points below the rate for white households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Home helps us to place a marker on our beginnings,” said Dean, of Denison University, in his testimony to the Reparations Task Force. “This is where this American odyssey begins for the hundreds of Black families of Allensworth, Calif., who unfortunately do not and cannot claim inheritance to a home that their ancestors created for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the town’s founding, Dean spoke about William Payne, Allensworth’s first teacher and principal, who was denied a teaching license by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lt. Col. Allensworth had secured more than 9,000 acres “of the richest land in central California,” he wrote to Booker T. Washington. The settlement was on the main line of the Santa Fe Railway. According to Dean, Allensworth was the only transfer point between Los Angeles and Fresno at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In essence, it was a shining example of Black self-sufficiency and prosperity,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A railroad diverted\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, visitors can peek into the windows of each structure — the schoolhouse, the library and homes. The nearly 20 buildings are meant to look like they would have looked in 1908, complete with outhouses, furniture, books and even fake food in the kitchen of Lt. Col. Allensworth’s home. There’s a bizarre ghost-like quality to the buildings on days when there isn’t a celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a self-guided tour of sorts, visitors can call a number to hear a brief recording describing aspects of each building. The recording also describes the railroad station that connected Allensworth to the outside world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trains brought friends and relatives, mail supplies and building materials,” a recorded voice says. “Most important, freight shipments supported the town’s economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1914, a new stop was created in a neighboring white town and the number of shipments from Allensworth severely declined. That’s one of the factors that led to the town’s demise, according to Jerelyn Oliveira, who leads tours of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They added tracks over to the little community of Alpaugh, which is west of here by about seven miles,” she said. “All that agricultural product was being transported from Alpaugh instead of Allensworth. So the money started slowing down, dwindling, and then the trains stopped stopping here in 1929.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a bumper sticker that reads 'Visit California's Black Historic Town Allensworth'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1536x1257.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-2048x1676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/MS189_0015-1920x1571.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bumper sticker from Allensworth, circa 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland Photograph Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925109/racism-robbed-this-historically-black-california-town-of-its-water-now-theyre-developing-water-of-their-own\">Water was another issue\u003c/a>. The Pacific Water Company built only four wells for Allensworth, compared to the 10 wells built for Alpaugh, according to a report released by the Reparations Task Force in June. Allensworth’s wells started drying up, and the water became contaminated. The settlers were “victims of a racist scam and were sold land that would never have enough water,” the report noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denise Kadara’s mother, Nettie Morrison, moved Denise and her siblings to Allensworth in the ’70s. For almost four decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/6640864\">Morrison helped keep the memory of the town alive\u003c/a> through park events, like the Juneteenth celebration. Though she passed away in 2018, her children — including Kadara and her twin brother, Dennis Hutson — are continuing the legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want to do here is bring the community back, and make it a thriving community once again,” Kadara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pride and sadness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Butler disembarked the train in the blazing heat, she walked across the tracks to wait for the small bus to take her to the schoolhouse. There, Butler told the docents that she heard a story about how Gloria Harris, her sister-in-law’s mother, had carved her name into a desk. 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There’s a sense of nostalgia,” said Hutchings, who had previously visited the park a few weeks prior to the Juneteenth celebration. All of the buildings had been closed then, and she could only look through the windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome to be inside,” Hutchings continued. “You feel a little bit emotional and you feel a little proud, because you can see that they had a good life here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gail Autry, who boarded the train in the Bay Area, said she had mixed emotions being at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of want to cry,” she said. “Any time I’ve ever gone to a different plantation, it’s just the feeling of pride, of sadness, of how they made it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A road map to repair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bradford, of the Reparations Task Force, is focused on bringing attention to the accomplishments of Black people and properties they owned at the turn of the century, such as Val Verde and Bruce’s Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Malcolm Perce is just 18 years old, but they have a clear message for older generations to hear on Juneteenth: The Black experience is more diverse than they often acknowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Juneteenth is not only a celebration of Black people, but it's a celebration of all the intersectional parts of Black history and Black people, including Blasian communities, queer Black communities, Black Latinx communities. So I think that it's important to recognize everyone that's in the community,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perce, who is genderqueer, knows that personally and was one of several Black voices who told KQED what the celebration means to them at the 35th annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, Sunday. The holiday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755577/the-women-who-fought-to-keep-juneteenth-in-san-francisco\">honors\u003c/a> the annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other cities across the Bay Area may have celebrated Juneteenth for longer — San Francisco for more than 70 years, and San Jose for more than 40 — Berkeley's organizers say their event's claim to fame is that it is the longest continuously running Juneteenth celebration in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's Juneteenth also comes on the heels of a report by the state's nine-member Reparations Task Force recommending housing grants, state-backed mortgages, higher pay and free health care for Black Californians. It will release a comprehensive reparations plan next summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916026/no-the-reparations-task-force-report-isnt-a-watershed-moment-action-will-be\">as KQED Managing Editor Otis Taylor highlighted this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley also is grappling with its own promises of justice, as it weighs giving priority to housing those with family ties in historically disinvested Berkeley neighborhoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opentownhall.com/portals/257/Issue_9777/survey_responses\">or those historically displaced by government action, like the Black community during BART's construction.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially key as roughly 2,400 housing units may soon rise up over Ashby BART station, blocks way from the celebration, after Berkeley officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/06/03/council-approves-7-story-housing-ashby-north-berkeley-bart\">approved needed zoning changes just this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of how to keep a sharply declining Black population in the East Bay wasn't confined to the halls of government — they were top of mind for Perce at Juneteenth on Sunday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important in the Bay Area to remember houseless people who need to be compensated when considering reparations, Perce said, and it's also important to make the Bay Area more affordable so they and their peers can afford to stay in the place they call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very worried. I'm trying to find little crevices in the Bay and just outside of the Bay where housing is affordable for young adults,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what others at Berkeley's Juneteenth had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Edythe Boone\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917377\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edythe Boone (center) attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Boone created the art for 35th annual Berkeley Juneteenth festival. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art is Edythe Boone's passion, and at Juneteenth, she celebrated both her passion and her community. Sunday was the 84-year-old's first time at Berkeley's Juneteenth festival, but her impact has long been felt throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boone is a storied artist and community activist, with mural work featured in San Francisco's Mission District, and elsewhere,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101857076/muralist-and-activist-edythe-boon-brings-new-color-to-bay-area-communities\"> work highlighted in the documentary \"A New Color.\"\u003c/a> She is also the aunt of Eric Garner, who was choked and killed by New York Police Department officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy, and many before him, inform her work, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My ancestors were slaves,\" she said. \"That's why I'm here, and I'm hoping that this world will change into a world that we can appreciate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gerald Baptiste Jr.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Baptiste Jr. attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gerald Baptiste Jr. has been at the festival since the beginning, and his family has deep roots in the community. His father, also Gerald Baptiste, worked with the Center for Independent Living, an organization that supports people living with disabilities and helped lead the push for the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/125620/first-big-berkeley-celebration-of-black-history-month-on-saturday\">Baptiste\u003c/a> says his father was fundamental in getting the land for the Ed Roberts Campus, a hub for organizations providing services to people with disabilities in the local community right across the street from the Juneteenth Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baptiste Jr. helped found the Juneteenth festival 35 years ago. “I was born in Texas and they’ve been doing that for over a hundred years,” he said. But when he first came out to Berkeley in the 1980s, Juneteenth celebrations weren’t as common. “To be a part of something that was being basically established on the West Coast was special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean it was easy. Baptiste Jr. remembers there was a lot of back-and-forth with the City about where the event would be. “The city of Berkeley and the politics that existed at that time, did not want us to have a large public gathering outside.” He says it was a struggle to get it off the ground, but eventually, it became the tradition it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baptiste said the festival didn’t happen last year, or the year before, because of COVID-19. He says, being back now on Adeline Street with his kids and grandkids “is just wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kele Nitoto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917380\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kele Nitoto, 46, plays the hand drum at the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland native Kele Nitoto helped usher in Juneteenth with his djembe, \u003ca href=\"http://www.drumafrica.co.uk/articles/the-djembe/\">a West African drum\u003c/a>, by honoring the community's ancestors with his beat at the morning's African libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like a prayer before a meal,\" he said. \"We honor the ancestors because the 'most high,' God, is too far away. He's too noble, right? So your connection is those people who have passed on, those people that you respect and love, that you look up to from history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked which of his own ancestors he honored in his heart during that ceremony, Nitoto said he looks up to his paternal grandfather, Charles Hoskins, an activist in Mississippi and a worker who took in neighborhood children to keep them safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Juneteenth, he feels it's important to remember freedom in the context of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been out of slavery for much shorter a time than we were enslaved,\" Nitoto said. \"And slavery did not only affect those who were enslaved – that traumatized everyone in the country, especially those perpetrating the evil.\" That trauma lives on, and so, he said, \"this country is in need of healing this trauma.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janelle J. and Michelle Horn\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917379\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle J. (left), Michelle Horn and friend attend Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Berkeley residents Janelle J. and Michelle Horn, Juneteenth is about coming together to celebrate with people from other cultures, together. But it's also about ensuring the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas and elsewhere are not forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all free now. It's about freedom, for everybody,\" Horn said. Janelle said, \"It's just beautiful to see people out here peacefully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janelle said she's glad Berkeley is looking at reparations for residents, but a recently announced housing preference for Black citizens is \"setting the bar low.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a new development announced for the parking lot near Ashby BART station also alarms her due to fear of further gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thomas Leonard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Leonard and his horse Paco attend the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Leonard, 69, said his clothing is an homage to his heritage. “This is how my people wore it in the beginning …and I decided to represent,“ Leonard said. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Leonard certainly knows how to make an entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rode into Berkeley's Juneteenth celebration atop Paco, his steed, shirtless in the sun, wearing little else other than a headdress, a waistcloth and a broad grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard, Juneteenth is a time to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My people were told that they were free,\" he said. \"It's a reminder. I think it's nice to see my people, and all people, get together and celebrate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yvonne Cagle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917372\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Yvonne Cagle attends the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raised in Novato, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, 64, eventually made her way to space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.su.org/experts/yvonne-cagle\">While the NASA astronaut\u003c/a> explored the inky dark beyond Earth's atmosphere three times, on Sunday she found herself down on terra firma at Berkeley's Juneteenth celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's key for everyone, no matter their station, no matter their achievements, to remember those that came before, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us arrived at our destination alone. We stand on the shoulders of our giants, our ancestors. The best way to look to and secure the future is by learning about and being inspired, and innovating, on the achievements and accomplishments of the past,\" she said. \"That's why I'm here on Juneteenth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, she did have one more reason: the kids. She stood at a booth in the sun to teach the younger generations some of the science she took with her to space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crack of dawn, I was here setting up tables and helping out. I wasn't gonna miss it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Orlando Williams\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Williams, 55, attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orlando Williams grew up a few blocks from the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up as a kid, we came to it,” he said, noting that now many of people who he used to come with have moved away or been displaced from the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the festival gives people a reason to get together again. “This is more now like a reunion of everybody coming back,” he said “We haven’t had a chance to gather for a while. And so to come back to this means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he’d like to see the city do more to support South Berkeley’s Black community, and the housing preference policy the City is considering sounds promising. But he has doubts. “The developers are really the ones that have the power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, he said, is maintaining Black community space. “A home, a business, anywhere people can gather and feel comfortable,” he said. “We’re running out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If developments are coming to the neighborhood, Williams said he’d like to see community spaces in the plans that recognize the legacy of the Black community in this neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Denzel Herrera-Davis and Lawrence Quincy Milton Jr.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022..jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denzel Herrera-Davis (left) and Lawrence Quincy Milton, Jr attend Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sunday's Juneteenth, Denzel Herrera-Davis and Lawrence Quincy Milton Jr. were on a mission to reach out to their community. Herrera-Davis founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.cr8thespace.com/\">Create the Space\u003c/a>, what he calls a wellness concierge, centering Black male health by offering clinicians, coaches and peer specialists to help Black men navigate life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local government debates reparations for Black Californians, a topic on the minds of some on Juneteenth, Herrera-Davis said he feels concessions are \"really, really trivial in the grand scheme of things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, we deserve what we deserve, but I'm always going to be of the position that it starts internally,\" he said. Instead, Herrera-Davis said his group aims at helping people become self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we can provide support and structure and safety and all of the basic needs that Black men need to support themselves, they can do better for themselves. They can be better for one another. They can be better for their community, their families, and the household. And then that's how you really start stabilizing a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quincy Milton Jr. said Create the Space \"saved my life\" through that sense of community. \"I think that's a really, really, really major thing that a lot of Black men are missing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Delores Nochi Cooper\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delores Nochi Cooper attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Nochi Cooper has helped organize the festival since 1986. “We just want people to enjoy the atmosphere...and celebrate the black experience,“ Nochi Cooper said. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the past 35 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824731/berkeley-juneteenth-2020\">Delores Nochi Cooper has shepherded the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival\u003c/a>. When it first started, she said, it was as simple as a chicken dinner at Nick's restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The next year we'd saved up enough money to have the first annual,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret to their success is simple, she said: \"We just want people to enjoy the atmosphere, celebrate the black experience, of course, but just the idea that we're inviting the community to come in and partake of our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing has changed over the years, Nochi Cooper said, it's the population of Berkeley, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897977/berkeley-housing-analyst-says-hell-highlight-black-resident-decline-at-state-reparations-task-force-meeting\">seen its Black community drop precipitously\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, \"we're still here. And we're still celebrating Juneteenth.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Malcolm Perce is just 18 years old, but they have a clear message for older generations to hear on Juneteenth: The Black experience is more diverse than they often acknowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Juneteenth is not only a celebration of Black people, but it's a celebration of all the intersectional parts of Black history and Black people, including Blasian communities, queer Black communities, Black Latinx communities. So I think that it's important to recognize everyone that's in the community,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perce, who is genderqueer, knows that personally and was one of several Black voices who told KQED what the celebration means to them at the 35th annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, Sunday. The holiday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755577/the-women-who-fought-to-keep-juneteenth-in-san-francisco\">honors\u003c/a> the annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other cities across the Bay Area may have celebrated Juneteenth for longer — San Francisco for more than 70 years, and San Jose for more than 40 — Berkeley's organizers say their event's claim to fame is that it is the longest continuously running Juneteenth celebration in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's Juneteenth also comes on the heels of a report by the state's nine-member Reparations Task Force recommending housing grants, state-backed mortgages, higher pay and free health care for Black Californians. It will release a comprehensive reparations plan next summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916026/no-the-reparations-task-force-report-isnt-a-watershed-moment-action-will-be\">as KQED Managing Editor Otis Taylor highlighted this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley also is grappling with its own promises of justice, as it weighs giving priority to housing those with family ties in historically disinvested Berkeley neighborhoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opentownhall.com/portals/257/Issue_9777/survey_responses\">or those historically displaced by government action, like the Black community during BART's construction.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially key as roughly 2,400 housing units may soon rise up over Ashby BART station, blocks way from the celebration, after Berkeley officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/06/03/council-approves-7-story-housing-ashby-north-berkeley-bart\">approved needed zoning changes just this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of how to keep a sharply declining Black population in the East Bay wasn't confined to the halls of government — they were top of mind for Perce at Juneteenth on Sunday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important in the Bay Area to remember houseless people who need to be compensated when considering reparations, Perce said, and it's also important to make the Bay Area more affordable so they and their peers can afford to stay in the place they call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm very worried. I'm trying to find little crevices in the Bay and just outside of the Bay where housing is affordable for young adults,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what others at Berkeley's Juneteenth had to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Edythe Boone\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917377\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Edythe-Boone-right-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-Boone-created-the-art-for-35th-annual-Berkeley-Juneteenth-festival.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edythe Boone (center) attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Boone created the art for 35th annual Berkeley Juneteenth festival. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Art is Edythe Boone's passion, and at Juneteenth, she celebrated both her passion and her community. Sunday was the 84-year-old's first time at Berkeley's Juneteenth festival, but her impact has long been felt throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boone is a storied artist and community activist, with mural work featured in San Francisco's Mission District, and elsewhere,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101857076/muralist-and-activist-edythe-boon-brings-new-color-to-bay-area-communities\"> work highlighted in the documentary \"A New Color.\"\u003c/a> She is also the aunt of Eric Garner, who was choked and killed by New York Police Department officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His legacy, and many before him, inform her work, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My ancestors were slaves,\" she said. \"That's why I'm here, and I'm hoping that this world will change into a world that we can appreciate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gerald Baptiste Jr.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Gerald-Baptiste-Jr.-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Baptiste Jr. attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gerald Baptiste Jr. has been at the festival since the beginning, and his family has deep roots in the community. His father, also Gerald Baptiste, worked with the Center for Independent Living, an organization that supports people living with disabilities and helped lead the push for the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/125620/first-big-berkeley-celebration-of-black-history-month-on-saturday\">Baptiste\u003c/a> says his father was fundamental in getting the land for the Ed Roberts Campus, a hub for organizations providing services to people with disabilities in the local community right across the street from the Juneteenth Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baptiste Jr. helped found the Juneteenth festival 35 years ago. “I was born in Texas and they’ve been doing that for over a hundred years,” he said. But when he first came out to Berkeley in the 1980s, Juneteenth celebrations weren’t as common. “To be a part of something that was being basically established on the West Coast was special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean it was easy. Baptiste Jr. remembers there was a lot of back-and-forth with the City about where the event would be. “The city of Berkeley and the politics that existed at that time, did not want us to have a large public gathering outside.” He says it was a struggle to get it off the ground, but eventually, it became the tradition it is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baptiste said the festival didn’t happen last year, or the year before, because of COVID-19. He says, being back now on Adeline Street with his kids and grandkids “is just wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kele Nitoto\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917380\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917380\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Keep-Nitoto-46-plays-the-hand-drum-at-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kele Nitoto, 46, plays the hand drum at the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland native Kele Nitoto helped usher in Juneteenth with his djembe, \u003ca href=\"http://www.drumafrica.co.uk/articles/the-djembe/\">a West African drum\u003c/a>, by honoring the community's ancestors with his beat at the morning's African libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like a prayer before a meal,\" he said. \"We honor the ancestors because the 'most high,' God, is too far away. He's too noble, right? So your connection is those people who have passed on, those people that you respect and love, that you look up to from history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked which of his own ancestors he honored in his heart during that ceremony, Nitoto said he looks up to his paternal grandfather, Charles Hoskins, an activist in Mississippi and a worker who took in neighborhood children to keep them safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Juneteenth, he feels it's important to remember freedom in the context of history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been out of slavery for much shorter a time than we were enslaved,\" Nitoto said. \"And slavery did not only affect those who were enslaved – that traumatized everyone in the country, especially those perpetrating the evil.\" That trauma lives on, and so, he said, \"this country is in need of healing this trauma.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janelle J. and Michelle Horn\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917379\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Janelle-J.-left-Michelle-Horn-and-friend-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle J. (left), Michelle Horn and friend attend Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Berkeley residents Janelle J. and Michelle Horn, Juneteenth is about coming together to celebrate with people from other cultures, together. But it's also about ensuring the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas and elsewhere are not forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all free now. It's about freedom, for everybody,\" Horn said. Janelle said, \"It's just beautiful to see people out here peacefully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janelle said she's glad Berkeley is looking at reparations for residents, but a recently announced housing preference for Black citizens is \"setting the bar low.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a new development announced for the parking lot near Ashby BART station also alarms her due to fear of further gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Thomas Leonard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Thomas-Leonard-and-his-horse-Paco-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Leonard and his horse Paco attend the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Leonard, 69, said his clothing is an homage to his heritage. “This is how my people wore it in the beginning …and I decided to represent,“ Leonard said. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Leonard certainly knows how to make an entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He rode into Berkeley's Juneteenth celebration atop Paco, his steed, shirtless in the sun, wearing little else other than a headdress, a waistcloth and a broad grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Leonard, Juneteenth is a time to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My people were told that they were free,\" he said. \"It's a reminder. I think it's nice to see my people, and all people, get together and celebrate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Yvonne Cagle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917372\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Astronaut-Yvonne-Cagle-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-0A--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Yvonne Cagle attends the Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raised in Novato, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, 64, eventually made her way to space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.su.org/experts/yvonne-cagle\">While the NASA astronaut\u003c/a> explored the inky dark beyond Earth's atmosphere three times, on Sunday she found herself down on terra firma at Berkeley's Juneteenth celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's key for everyone, no matter their station, no matter their achievements, to remember those that came before, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of us arrived at our destination alone. We stand on the shoulders of our giants, our ancestors. The best way to look to and secure the future is by learning about and being inspired, and innovating, on the achievements and accomplishments of the past,\" she said. \"That's why I'm here on Juneteenth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, she did have one more reason: the kids. She stood at a booth in the sun to teach the younger generations some of the science she took with her to space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crack of dawn, I was here setting up tables and helping out. I wasn't gonna miss it,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Orlando Williams\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917390\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Orlando-Williams-55-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Williams, 55, attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Orlando Williams grew up a few blocks from the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up as a kid, we came to it,” he said, noting that now many of people who he used to come with have moved away or been displaced from the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the festival gives people a reason to get together again. “This is more now like a reunion of everybody coming back,” he said “We haven’t had a chance to gather for a while. And so to come back to this means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he’d like to see the city do more to support South Berkeley’s Black community, and the housing preference policy the City is considering sounds promising. But he has doubts. “The developers are really the ones that have the power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most important, he said, is maintaining Black community space. “A home, a business, anywhere people can gather and feel comfortable,” he said. “We’re running out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If developments are coming to the neighborhood, Williams said he’d like to see community spaces in the plans that recognize the legacy of the Black community in this neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Denzel Herrera-Davis and Lawrence Quincy Milton Jr.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022..jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Denzel-Herrera-leftand-Lawrence-Quincy-Milton-Jr-attend-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denzel Herrera-Davis (left) and Lawrence Quincy Milton, Jr attend Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Sunday's Juneteenth, Denzel Herrera-Davis and Lawrence Quincy Milton Jr. were on a mission to reach out to their community. Herrera-Davis founded \u003ca href=\"https://www.cr8thespace.com/\">Create the Space\u003c/a>, what he calls a wellness concierge, centering Black male health by offering clinicians, coaches and peer specialists to help Black men navigate life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local government debates reparations for Black Californians, a topic on the minds of some on Juneteenth, Herrera-Davis said he feels concessions are \"really, really trivial in the grand scheme of things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, we deserve what we deserve, but I'm always going to be of the position that it starts internally,\" he said. Instead, Herrera-Davis said his group aims at helping people become self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we can provide support and structure and safety and all of the basic needs that Black men need to support themselves, they can do better for themselves. They can be better for one another. They can be better for their community, their families, and the household. And then that's how you really start stabilizing a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quincy Milton Jr. said Create the Space \"saved my life\" through that sense of community. \"I think that's a really, really, really major thing that a lot of Black men are missing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Delores Nochi Cooper\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11917401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.-.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Delores-Nochi-Cooper-attends-Berkeley-Juneteenth-Festival-on-Sunday-June-19-2022.--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delores Nochi Cooper attends Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Sunday, June 19, 2022. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the board of University of California Hastings College of the Law sat down last Friday to discuss the next steps in changing the school’s name, California tribal leaders were at the table with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting of the two groups was the latest development in a years-long process to redress violence perpetrated against Indigenous Californians by the college’s founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings. The law school isn’t just getting a new name: Under a bill now pending in the Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1936\">it would also make reparations to tribes affected by Hastings’ actions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making sure tribal leaders are part of the conversation about the name change sets the tone for how restorative justice should be carried out, said the bill’s author, Assemblymember James Ramos, a Rancho Cucamonga Democrat and the first member of a California Native American tribe to serve in the state Legislature. Ramos is a member of the Serrano/Cahuilla Tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re laying the groundwork and a model for others to be able to follow when we’re dealing with these types of historical trauma that has been inflicted upon California Indian people,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy dates back to 2017, when the university investigated how Hastings, the first chief justice of the California Supreme Court, promoted and funded massacres in the 1850s against the Yuki Tribe and other Indigenous Californians in the Eden Valley and Round Valley areas of what is now Mendocino County. A subsequent New York Times article looked at the university’s findings, sparking more widespread public outcry, and prompting the school’s board last year to sign off on the process of exploring a new name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]“This has been a long road that has gotten us here, and the road will continue past this moment,” said the law school’s dean, David Faigman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the university’s findings, Hastings funded hunting expeditions that led to the deaths of Yuki men, women and children; profited off the seizure of land following the massacres; and funded the college with a $100,000 donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Russ, president of the Round Valley Indian Tribes Tribal Council, said the name change isn’t about placing blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re saying is this is what happened to our tribes historically, and it needs to be acknowledged,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name-change process, though, remains contentious, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/us/new-name-california-law-school.html\">ongoing disagreement on what the college should be called\u003c/a>. During Friday’s meeting, members of the public urged the board to consider suggestions from tribal leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One name proposed was “College of the Law: San Francisco.” Russ said tribal leaders pushed back against the proposal because of its connection to the Catholic mission system, which also perpetuated violence against California Indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To us, the name San Francisco means the same kind of death and destruction as the name Hastings, just a different time and place,” said Steve Brown, councilmember of the Yuki Committee. “We don’t feel restorative justice would be accomplished by substituting one name with a horrific history for another with an equally horrific history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, there’s also hope among some tribal representatives that the college will consider a Yuki name. The area where the massacres occurred was Yuki land, and other tribes were forcibly relocated there. Today, the confederated tribes of the Round Valley Indian Reservation include Yuki, Pit River, Little Lake Pomo, Nomlacki, Concow and Wailacki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown urged board members to choose a name that includes two words from the Yuki language: Powe Nom, which means “one people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a Yuki name is chosen, “all who attend and speak of this institution will be participating in the restorative justice process whenever the law school is mentioned, by speaking and helping revitalize the Yuki language,” said Yuki Committee Vice Chair Mona Oandasan during an April hearing on the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name change can’t happen without legislation, since the school was founded under the state’s education code. Ramos’ legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1936\">Assembly Bill 1936\u003c/a>, would authorize changing the college’s name with consultation from the Round Valley Indian Tribes and the Yuki Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also lays out restorative justice measures, including the creation of scholarships for Native students, installing memorials and developing ways for the school and its students to provide legal aid to tribes affected by the atrocities.[aside postID=\"news_11912123\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/ATN_611-Thumbnails-3-1038x576.png\"] The bill, approved on a 75-0 vote in the Assembly last month, is now before the Senate. At the same time, meetings will continue between the tribes and university leaders to settle on a new name, with the goal of adding it to the bill for lawmakers to vote on before the end of the legislative session in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Hastings is hardly the only university grappling with its history and namesakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/#:~:text=Boalt%20and%20'The%20Chinese%20Question'&text=Out%20of%20respect%20for%20Elizabeth,law%20school%20relocated%20in%201951.\">UC Berkeley removed John Henry Boalt’s name from its law school building\u003c/a>, after racist anti-Chinese writings from the attorney were surfaced. And in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-to-rename-building-for-isaac-hawkins-one-of-272-enslaved-in-1838-sale/#:~:text=The%20university%20changed%20the%20name,during%20an%20April%2018%20ceremony.\">Georgetown University changed the names of two buildings\u003c/a> that had commemorated school presidents who oversaw the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts at these universities have also put an emphasis on restorative justice. Along with the renaming, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgetown-university-announces-reparations-fund-benefit-descendants-slaves/story?id=66642286\">Georgetown offered preferred admission\u003c/a> to descendants of the 272 enslaved people. At Harvard University, after \u003ca href=\"https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/04/slavery-probe-harvards-ties-inseparable-from-rise/\">research revealed deep links between slavery and past school presidents\u003c/a>, a university report recommended partnerships with community groups and relevant schools — such as historically Black colleges and universities — to benefit the descendants of those affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the restorative justice efforts at Hastings have already begun. The university created an Indigenous Law Center and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uchastings.edu/2022/05/24/uc-hastings-students-will-give-free-legal-aid-to-indigenous-communities-this-summer/\">has established a fellowship for law students\u003c/a>, providing legal aid to Indigenous communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming will cost UC Hastings an estimated $3 million, said university spokesperson Elizabeth Moore. A fiscal analysis of the bill states there would be \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1936#\">ongoing costs of about $559,000\u003c/a> for the college’s Indigenous Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other measures outlined in the bill include the formation of a nonprofit that would provide legal aid to tribal leaders on water and property rights' issues. The university also would create a memorial on its campus for the Yuki and Round Valley Indian tribes and establish scholarships for admitted law students who are tribal members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, of the Yuki Committee, said these initiatives would be a big step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tribal council has ongoing issues with water rights and land boundaries,” said Brown. “The tribal members have legal issues with land and timber, so that pro bono legal advice will be helpful. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]uvVon Brown approached the microphone toward the end of the reparations listening session on May 28 in Oakland, exactly two weeks to the day since a white supremacist gunman walked into a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and started shooting Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wanted to talk about her family and their lives on the Monterey Peninsula, the place she’s thought of as home for most of her life, the place she no longer recognizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother was raised in Pacific Grove, one of three cities that make up the peninsula, which juts from California’s Central Coast like an unattached puzzle piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just a lot of Black history that’s here, not only in Monterey County, but all over California,” Brown told me last week, the day California’s Reparations Task Force released \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports\">its first report\u003c/a>. “It’s not preserved anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine-member task force — the first statewide body in the country to study institutional and systemic anti-Black racism, a wretchedness spawned from the horrors of chattel slavery — made several recommendations in the nearly 500-page report. Racism in this country is linked to income inequality, education inequality, mass incarceration and the widening racial wealth gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what the task force says is needed to achieve racial equity in California: housing grants, state-backed mortgages, higher pay and free health care, for starters. The preliminary recommendations included the establishment of an agency to address past and potential future harms, and to assist people in filing eligibility claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909471/unpacking-reparations-eligibility-in-california\">voted in favor of lineage-based reparations\u003c/a>, limiting eligibility to descendants of enslaved people or of free Black people living in the country in the 19th century. The group will release a comprehensive reparations plan next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]Days before the report was released, inside the California Ballroom — a $300-an-hour art deco space used for weddings, conferences and family reunions on Franklin Street — the listening session, one of several planned this summer, was sparsely attended, with about four dozen people and as many more watching the livestream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was expecting a scene reminiscent of the movement to secure reparations for people of Japanese descent incarcerated during WWII, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906015/how-japanese-americans-in-the-bay-area-are-carrying-forward-the-legacy-of-reparations\">for three days people testified in a packed auditorium\u003c/a> at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, as my colleague Annelise Finney reported in February, marking the 80th year of the executive order that forced people, many American citizens, to abandon their jobs, schools and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this listening session was muted in comparison because, like the task force, which could produce a model for countrywide reparations, an argument must first be presented because the totality of America’s racist history isn’t taught in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road to racial equity in America starts in California, which entered the union as a free state in 1850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1849, delegates met in Monterey to draft the state’s constitution, declaring California a free state where “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated.” California’s first governor, the repugnant racist Peter Hardeman Burnett, sanctioned campaigns to exterminate Indigenous populations. He also wanted to block Black people from entering the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out that way, but Black people have still had a hard row to hoe in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20th century, Black people arrived on the Monterey Peninsula as fieldworkers, putting down roots in Pacific Grove. Brown’s grandmother was part of the Great Migration of Black folks fleeing Jim Crow-era lynchings and white mob violence in Arkansas and other southern states. Brown said her family — aunts, uncles and cousins — lived on the same street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916047\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman looks towards the camera while holding a card standing in front of a microphone\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56289_037_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LuvVon Brown speaks during a reparations listening session at the California Ballroom in Oakland on May 28, 2022. Brown spoke about her family and their lives on the Monterey Peninsula, a place she no longer recognizes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fort Ord, an Army base overlooking Monterey Bay that closed in 1994, drew Black families from around the country, with many, including Brown’s mother, settling in Seaside. Many areas of Monterey County, like Carmel and Del Rey Oaks, were off-limits because of restrictive housing covenants that barred Black people from owning property in certain areas, Brown said, citing “African Americans of Monterey County,” a history of the county by Jan Batiste Adkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History is about all that’s left of the robust Black life that once thrived in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like when you go back there now, it’s completely different,” said Brown, 34, who believes that providing land should be a reparations priority. “It’s almost like every trace of the Black community is almost gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/seaside-ca/home-values/\">median home price in Seaside\u003c/a>, according to Zillow, an online real estate marketplace, is almost $800,000. Now a sales representative for a human resources management company, Brown graduated from Seaside High School in 2005. She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Many in her family, including her mother, followed, unable to sustain the high cost of living on the California coast. In the course of her lifetime, Brown has seen Black wealth evaporate in Seaside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t feel like home because all of the families that grew up there are gone,” said Brown, who moved to the Bay Area during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area, while racially diverse, remains deeply segregated, according to analyses by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. In \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/most-segregated-cities-bay-area-2020\">an October 2021 report\u003c/a> titled “The Most Segregated Cities and Neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area,” researchers, using 2020 Census data, found “that the Bay Area is significantly more segregated than it was in 1970, 1980, or even 1990,” and said that eight of the nine counties “are more segregated as of 2020 than they were in 1970, and 7 of the 9 are more segregated in 2020 than they were in 1980.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11878403 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-21-at-8.36.32-PM-e1624333298534.png']Oakland is home to six of the 10 most segregated Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area, neighborhoods that were established because of racist housing covenants and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">redlining\u003c/a>, the racist housing policy started during the New Deal that determined the loan-worthiness of neighborhoods across the country for government-backed mortgages using color-coded maps. If an area was redlined, more than likely that’s where Black people lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Black neighborhoods were torn apart, houses and businesses demolished, to make room for the interstate highways that connected white, suburban homeowners to the cities they fled. The Great Recession, sparked in part by the foreclosure crisis 14 years ago, caused the median net worth of Black households nationally to drop 43%, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/\">2014 report by the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan think tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research and content analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Black people just can’t afford to live in the cities they think of as home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/black-pop-bayarea\">Bay Area Equity Atlas\u003c/a>, a tool that tracks racial inequities, found that, on average, Black workers in the Bay Area earn about half of what white men earn. The median wage for Black women workers is $52,000, and Black men make $3,000 more, according to the Atlas, which used 2019 data. White men make $107,000, a figure that’s reinforced by the fact that only 33% of Black high school graduates are college-ready, compared to more than half of white graduates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I reached out to Sarah Treuhaft, vice president of research at PolicyLink, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing economic and social equity, to hear what the data tells us about the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It tells me that structural racism persists in this region. If there was no structural racism, we would not see these differences in earnings by race and gender,” she said. “There is no other reason for them, and we still even see these disparities when we look at people who have the same level of education. So it shows that there is continuing wage discrimination in the labor market and pay discrimination by race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s education system doesn’t provide equal opportunity, and we see it in the outcomes. Have you ever wondered how it is that 40% of the state’s unhoused population is Black while just 6.5% of the state’s population identifies as Black?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And get this: In Monterey County, the percentage of Black people who were unhoused was more than seven times higher than the county’s Black population, according to \u003ca href=\"https://chsp.org/monterey-and-san-benito-county-homeless-census-reports/\">the county’s 2019 homeless census\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s systemic racism at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Reparations Coverage' tag='california-reparations']“We know that people of color are more likely to live in communities that do not have well-funded schools and go to school with other low-income families,” Treuhaft said. “That leads to differences in educational outcomes in high school. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Days before the report was released, inside the California Ballroom — a $300-an-hour art deco space used for weddings, conferences and family reunions on Franklin Street — the listening session, one of several planned this summer, was sparsely attended, with about four dozen people and as many more watching the livestream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was expecting a scene reminiscent of the movement to secure reparations for people of Japanese descent incarcerated during WWII, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906015/how-japanese-americans-in-the-bay-area-are-carrying-forward-the-legacy-of-reparations\">for three days people testified in a packed auditorium\u003c/a> at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, as my colleague Annelise Finney reported in February, marking the 80th year of the executive order that forced people, many American citizens, to abandon their jobs, schools and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this listening session was muted in comparison because, like the task force, which could produce a model for countrywide reparations, an argument must first be presented because the totality of America’s racist history isn’t taught in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road to racial equity in America starts in California, which entered the union as a free state in 1850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1849, delegates met in Monterey to draft the state’s constitution, declaring California a free state where “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated.” California’s first governor, the repugnant racist Peter Hardeman Burnett, sanctioned campaigns to exterminate Indigenous populations. He also wanted to block Black people from entering the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work out that way, but Black people have still had a hard row to hoe in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 20th century, Black people arrived on the Monterey Peninsula as fieldworkers, putting down roots in Pacific Grove. Brown’s grandmother was part of the Great Migration of Black folks fleeing Jim Crow-era lynchings and white mob violence in Arkansas and other southern states. 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Many in her family, including her mother, followed, unable to sustain the high cost of living on the California coast. In the course of her lifetime, Brown has seen Black wealth evaporate in Seaside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t feel like home because all of the families that grew up there are gone,” said Brown, who moved to the Bay Area during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area, while racially diverse, remains deeply segregated, according to analyses by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. 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It’s to support storytelling and healing, said Carlos Rojas Alvarez, director of executive affairs and strategic initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carlos Rojas Alvarez, director of executive affairs and strategic initiatives, Decolonizing Wealth Project\"]‘We believe that we have a unique and historic opportunity, given that California is a state that is leading the way on truth and healing with Native communities.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"10\">The money comes from the California Endowment, the Christensen Fund and the fund supporting the Decolonizing Wealth Project, based in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-reader-unique-id=\"11\">The Project has partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://tribalaffairs.ca.gov/cthc/\" data-reader-unique-id=\"12\">California Truth and Healing Council\u003c/a>, which Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>As California’s Reparations Task Force — the first statewide body created to study the harmful and residual effects of slavery in the United States — moves toward creating legislation around reparations, musicians in the Bay Area like Kev Choice, as well as many others across the country, are using their art to make the case for compensating descendants of enslaved people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://kevchoice.wordpress.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choice\u003c/a> says the topic of reparations has been on his mind for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kev Choice, Bay Area musician\"]‘We need to use our music to help amplify the voices of the people who have been fighting for this for a long time — the legislators, the community activists.’[/pullquote]But it’s only been in recent years that the Oakland-based hip-hop and jazz artist has used the word explicitly in his music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGsNUMsfwU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel\u003c/a>,” a song that heavily references Public Enemy, the rap group that shined a spotlight on the exploitation of Black recording artists and called for reparations on the 1990 album “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_a_Black_Planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fear of a Black Planet\u003c/a>,” Choice raps: “I’m thinking ’bout solutions, reparations, housing and education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGsNUMsfwU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4tefu-SCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Worries\u003c/a>” contains an urgent demand for payment: “When the government write them checks/Add reparations while the ink wet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversations that have been happening nationwide politically have sparked me to include that word specifically,” Choice, who wrote both of the above songs in 2020, told KQED. “I’m saying, ‘OK, maybe this is a possibility. So let me speak it into existence.’ The more we speak things into existence, the more possibility they are going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4tefu-SCg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call for reparations is nothing new in popular music, particularly in hip-hop, a genre that has been documenting inequities since its birth almost a half century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]“We need to use our music to help amplify the voices of the people who have been fighting for this for a long time — the legislators, the community activists,” said Choice. “How can I use my music to support those who are on the front lines of this battle?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hip-hop leads the charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFOb_f7ubw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the Time I Get to Arizona\u003c/a>,” Public Enemy’s 1991 protest anthem against the Arizona governor’s decision to cancel Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the song reaches its climax when rapper Chuck D demands reparations: “A piece of the pick, we picked a piece of the land that we’re deserving now/Reparation, a piece of the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFOb_f7ubw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/daphne-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daphne A. Brooks\u003c/a>, a Yale University professor who was raised in the Bay Area, described hip-hop as a “deeply fruitful and prolific space” to present the case for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hip-hop is fluid enough to be able to capture the immediacy and the intimacies of our everyday lives and, in particular, Black working-class people’s everyday lives,” said Brooks, a professor of music, African American studies, American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. “And because of that, it’s a useful scaffold to critique the ways in which we think about race and sociopolitical structures of power, and how Black people operate within and against those sociopolitical structures of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMtaIcrfQ0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all hip-hop tracks focused on demanding reparations use that actual word. Songs like Saul Williams’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMtaIcrfQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of Demands\u003c/a>,” released in 2004, are as explicit in their call for the U.S. government to pay Black people damages as any of the more than 950 songs that show up when you type “reparations” into the search box on lyrics websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuAWTZ5jPxY\">You Owe Me\u003c/a>,” a 1999 single exploring the power dynamics of sex through images of slavey and money, Nas raps, “Yeah, owe me back like you owe your tax/Owe me back like 40 acres to Blacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuAWTZ5jPxY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reference to “40 acres” is shorthand for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Field_Orders_No._15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Field Order 15\u003c/a>, the military order issued in 1865 by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, which arranged for 400,000 acres of property confiscated from Confederate landowners to be redistributed to emancipated Black families in 40-acre plots. President Andrew Johnson, an enslaver, quickly overturned the order after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by a Confederate sympathizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept of 40 acres — or 40 acres and a mule — has become a particularly powerful way of talking about reparations — not just in songs, but also in American pop culture. It’s the name of filmmaker Spike Lee’s \u003ca href=\"https://40acres.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">production company\u003c/a>. Choice said the slogan was written across many T-shirts and sweatshirts when he was growing up in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmj4_ZciYU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11909471,news_11906054,news_11818409\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Many songs about reparations have been fueled by America’s broken promise, from Oscar Brown Jr.’s 1965 proto-rap spoken-word track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmj4_ZciYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forty Acres and a Mule\u003c/a>” to, a little over half a century later, T.I.’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylWdBjvzHI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Acres\u003c/a>,” released in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forty acres and a Mueller/I spent my reparations on the jeweler,” the song’s chorus begins before ending with, “40 acres and a mule, 40 acres and a mule/These n— actin’ f—’ fools, for 40 acres and a mule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists working in other musical genres also have contributed to the reparations repertoire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylWdBjvzHI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released two years ago on June 19 to celebrate Juneteenth — now a federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people — Beyoncé’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Parade\u003c/a>” named Black activists and her mother before calling for reparations: “Curtis Mayfield on the speaker/Lil’ Malcolm, Martin, mixed with momma Tina/Need another march, lemme call Tamika/Need peace and reparation for my people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT1m1ele00\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reggae artist Damian Marley’s pungent 2001 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXumJdfI8I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Educated Fools\u003c/a>” demands that colonial forces stand trial for the evils committed “until dem send di reparation dollars/Warning to all di political scholars/Political thieves and political liars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXumJdfI8I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBG3Uc_D5ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time for Reparations\u003c/a>,” released in 2021 by the Grammy Award-winning R&B-and-soul ensemble Sounds of Blackness, has a hypnotic chorus with one of the most insistent messages of any song on the topic released in recent years: “Time for reparations/Right now time for reparations,” the group repeats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBG3Uc_D5ac\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hip-hop may be the most prominent musical genre in this country today, Choice said it’s important for the call for reparations to be heard across other genres to ensure as broad an audience hears it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m able to get into these spaces where I’m bringing with me the values, the energy, the mindset, the issues of my community,” said Choice, who has collaborated with the Oakland and San Francisco symphonies, as well as the SFJAZZ Center, among other local institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How explicit calls for reparations emerged\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s currently little scholarship on the specific topic of reparations in music. Academics interviewed for this story said they think of it as a strand within the larger field of Black music studies. A line from the hip-hop tracks of today that explicitly reference reparations can be traced to older songs that speak to the deep-rooted wrongs committed against Black people in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Songs from the civil rights era like Nina Simone’s 1964 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mississippi Goddam\u003c/a>” and 19th-century spirituals, such as the anonymously published “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfbpsmbxE2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No More Auction Block for Me\u003c/a>,” protest racial inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘No More Auction Block’ seems, to me, very much in line with this broader genealogy of popular representations of bondage,” said \u003ca href=\"https://english.columbia.edu/content/shana-l-redmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shana Redmond\u003c/a>, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, who has written extensively about music. “Because the song really is about the sale of people and entire futures, and this is why we’re owed a debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfbpsmbxE2c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.samorapinderhughes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samora Pinderhughes\u003c/a>, who’s currently working on a doctorate in music at Harvard University, makes a similar case for placing tracks like Curtis Mayfield’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1xmXOP3lhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Gonna Go\u003c/a>” and Tupac Shakur’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW--IGAfeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Ya Head Up\u003c/a>” in the tradition of reparations songs. He also includes many of the tracks on his own recently released album, “\u003ca href=\"https://samorapinderhughes.bandcamp.com/campaign/grief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grief\u003c/a>,” because the songs present a clear case for why Black Americans need reparations in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they point back to these systemic issues that would be at the heart of what a real reparations conversation would look and sound and actually be like to me,” Pinderhughes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s challenging to pinpoint when artists began to call out the need for reparations explicitly. The earliest songs KQED found date back to Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoDV3icbgc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul\u003c/a>,” which asks how the cost of racism in America can be accounted for. A request for historical sources from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress’s Music Division\u003c/a> was still pending at the time of publishing of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoDV3icbgc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turning point was Gil Scott-Heron putting the word ‘reparations’ front and center,” Redmond, of Columbia, said. “The kinds of access points and community investments that he’s speaking to in that piece were already in circulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based composer, producer and vintage vinyl buff \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Younge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Younge\u003c/a> said the lack of songs explicitly referencing the concept of reparations before the 1960s can be explained by the fact that Black Americans in previous generations were fighting for other things, like the right to live in certain neighborhoods, attend certain schools and eat at certain restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were other forms of injustice that seemed a lot more immediate and within reach than reparations,” Younge said. “I mean, how are you going to ask for reparations when you can’t even drink out of the same water fountain? It’s baby steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accordingly, the first great wave of songs explicitly addressing reparations came during the 1990s and 2000s by artists like Shakur, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Kanye West and Lil Wayne. Many of these tracks highlighted the problems underpinning the need for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS6OB2W1oRI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Help me raise my Black nation, reparations are due/It’s true, caught up in this world I took advantage of you,” Shakur raps, from the perspective of a Black man in jail writing a love letter to a Black woman, in the 1996 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS6OB2W1oRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White Man’z World\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these artists who came of age as Gen Xers recognized that the next battlefront was being able to reckon with the afterlives of slavery — the ongoing catastrophe of Black subjugated life not having fully repaired, let alone ultimately addressed, the fiscal and sociopolitical problems linked to slavery,” said Brooks, of Yale. “These artists were standing on the scaffolding of civil rights and Black Power struggles, creating a space in their music to talk about these material and existential problems affecting Black life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And reparations becomes just one of the ways to try and address that emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the time of the publication of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Case for Reparations\u003c/a>,” \u003ca href=\"https://ta-nehisicoates.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c/a>’s landmark 2014 essay in The Atlantic, songs about reparations blossomed anew, with artists like Nipsey Hussle, Jay-Z and others fueling the debate around the topic with their music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coates is part of a broader kind of collective movement thinking in a multifaceted way about all of the different terms of repair that Black folks deserve,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the more recent songs, which gained an even greater urgency because of the Black Lives Matter movement, go beyond the question of why reparations should be paid to Black Americans to also address the how and the when.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmfYM6dSFg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nipsey Hussle’s 2018 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmfYM6dSFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dedication\u003c/a>” makes it clear that time has run out on waiting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How long should I stay dedicated?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How long ’til opportunity meet preparation?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I need some real n— reparations\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Before I run up in your bank just for recreation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 2013 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIduVOyoDE\">40 Acres\u003c/a>,” Pusha T makes it clear he wants land:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No change of heart, no change of mind\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>You can take what’s yours, but you gon’ leave what’s mine\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I’d rather die, than go home\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I’d rather die, than go home\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And I ain’t leaving without my 40 acres.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIduVOyoDE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Rebel,” Choice says reparations should take the form of equity in housing, health care, education and other social structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it has to be more than just, ‘Here is a certain dollar amount,’” Choice told KQED. “Because it’s bigger than money. It’s the ability to live, sustain and uplift these communities that have been harmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choice said he plans to write more songs about reparations, but he’s not the only Bay Area artist with this intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11910752 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with shoulder-length locks wearing a white undershirt and white pants hitched to below his knees, with tattoos on both arms, both hands, his back and the contours of his face, leans against one red sports car inside a garage, with his left leg (and a black-sneakered foot) propped on a second red sports car, whose door is open. He looks directly at the camera. Beyond the cars in the half-dark, shelves are visible, some empty and some holding what might be cleaning supplies or extra food supplies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nef the Pharaoh \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nef_the_Pharaoh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nef the Pharaoh\u003c/a> also expressed this desire. But even though the 27-year-old, Vallejo-based rapper is the creator of political songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHtt0ue9ZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Still I Rise\u003c/a>,” released in 2019, he said he’s been struggling to figure out how to make the subject of reparations resonate with his mostly teenage fan base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He almost created a reparations-themed project titled “Forty Acres and a Mule,” but changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like my listeners weren’t ready to pay attention to the topic,” he said. “And that was my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef said it’s on artists like himself to make their fans pay attention. “We’ve got to give way more people game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to “40 Acres and a Playlist” on \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5mG1JXeLPHQTazI9gmgCyi\">Spotify\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/40-acres-and-a-playlist/pl.u-PDb44ZVTLEmpvME\">Apple Music\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed?uri=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A5mG1JXeLPHQTazI9gmgCyi\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Corey Antonio Rose contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We need to use our music to help amplify the voices of the people who have been fighting for this for a long time — the legislators, the community activists,” said Choice. “How can I use my music to support those who are on the front lines of this battle?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hip-hop leads the charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFOb_f7ubw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By the Time I Get to Arizona\u003c/a>,” Public Enemy’s 1991 protest anthem against the Arizona governor’s decision to cancel Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the song reaches its climax when rapper Chuck D demands reparations: “A piece of the pick, we picked a piece of the land that we’re deserving now/Reparation, a piece of the nation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zrFOb_f7ubw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zrFOb_f7ubw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/daphne-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daphne A. Brooks\u003c/a>, a Yale University professor who was raised in the Bay Area, described hip-hop as a “deeply fruitful and prolific space” to present the case for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hip-hop is fluid enough to be able to capture the immediacy and the intimacies of our everyday lives and, in particular, Black working-class people’s everyday lives,” said Brooks, a professor of music, African American studies, American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. “And because of that, it’s a useful scaffold to critique the ways in which we think about race and sociopolitical structures of power, and how Black people operate within and against those sociopolitical structures of power.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zDMtaIcrfQ0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zDMtaIcrfQ0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Not all hip-hop tracks focused on demanding reparations use that actual word. Songs like Saul Williams’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDMtaIcrfQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of Demands\u003c/a>,” released in 2004, are as explicit in their call for the U.S. government to pay Black people damages as any of the more than 950 songs that show up when you type “reparations” into the search box on lyrics websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuAWTZ5jPxY\">You Owe Me\u003c/a>,” a 1999 single exploring the power dynamics of sex through images of slavey and money, Nas raps, “Yeah, owe me back like you owe your tax/Owe me back like 40 acres to Blacks.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/WuAWTZ5jPxY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/WuAWTZ5jPxY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The reference to “40 acres” is shorthand for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Field_Orders_No._15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Field Order 15\u003c/a>, the military order issued in 1865 by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, which arranged for 400,000 acres of property confiscated from Confederate landowners to be redistributed to emancipated Black families in 40-acre plots. 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Academics interviewed for this story said they think of it as a strand within the larger field of Black music studies. A line from the hip-hop tracks of today that explicitly reference reparations can be traced to older songs that speak to the deep-rooted wrongs committed against Black people in this country.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LJ25-U3jNWM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LJ25-U3jNWM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Songs from the civil rights era like Nina Simone’s 1964 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mississippi Goddam\u003c/a>” and 19th-century spirituals, such as the anonymously published “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfbpsmbxE2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No More Auction Block for Me\u003c/a>,” protest racial inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘No More Auction Block’ seems, to me, very much in line with this broader genealogy of popular representations of bondage,” said \u003ca href=\"https://english.columbia.edu/content/shana-l-redmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shana Redmond\u003c/a>, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, who has written extensively about music. “Because the song really is about the sale of people and entire futures, and this is why we’re owed a debt.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SfbpsmbxE2c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SfbpsmbxE2c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.samorapinderhughes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samora Pinderhughes\u003c/a>, who’s currently working on a doctorate in music at Harvard University, makes a similar case for placing tracks like Curtis Mayfield’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1xmXOP3lhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Gonna Go\u003c/a>” and Tupac Shakur’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW--IGAfeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Ya Head Up\u003c/a>” in the tradition of reparations songs. He also includes many of the tracks on his own recently released album, “\u003ca href=\"https://samorapinderhughes.bandcamp.com/campaign/grief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grief\u003c/a>,” because the songs present a clear case for why Black Americans need reparations in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they point back to these systemic issues that would be at the heart of what a real reparations conversation would look and sound and actually be like to me,” Pinderhughes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s challenging to pinpoint when artists began to call out the need for reparations explicitly. The earliest songs KQED found date back to Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoDV3icbgc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul\u003c/a>,” which asks how the cost of racism in America can be accounted for. A request for historical sources from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress’s Music Division\u003c/a> was still pending at the time of publishing of this article.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QVoDV3icbgc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QVoDV3icbgc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The turning point was Gil Scott-Heron putting the word ‘reparations’ front and center,” Redmond, of Columbia, said. “The kinds of access points and community investments that he’s speaking to in that piece were already in circulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles-based composer, producer and vintage vinyl buff \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Younge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Younge\u003c/a> said the lack of songs explicitly referencing the concept of reparations before the 1960s can be explained by the fact that Black Americans in previous generations were fighting for other things, like the right to live in certain neighborhoods, attend certain schools and eat at certain restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were other forms of injustice that seemed a lot more immediate and within reach than reparations,” Younge said. “I mean, how are you going to ask for reparations when you can’t even drink out of the same water fountain? It’s baby steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accordingly, the first great wave of songs explicitly addressing reparations came during the 1990s and 2000s by artists like Shakur, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Kanye West and Lil Wayne. Many of these tracks highlighted the problems underpinning the need for reparations.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lS6OB2W1oRI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lS6OB2W1oRI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Help me raise my Black nation, reparations are due/It’s true, caught up in this world I took advantage of you,” Shakur raps, from the perspective of a Black man in jail writing a love letter to a Black woman, in the 1996 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS6OB2W1oRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White Man’z World\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these artists who came of age as Gen Xers recognized that the next battlefront was being able to reckon with the afterlives of slavery — the ongoing catastrophe of Black subjugated life not having fully repaired, let alone ultimately addressed, the fiscal and sociopolitical problems linked to slavery,” said Brooks, of Yale. “These artists were standing on the scaffolding of civil rights and Black Power struggles, creating a space in their music to talk about these material and existential problems affecting Black life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And reparations becomes just one of the ways to try and address that emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the time of the publication of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Case for Reparations\u003c/a>,” \u003ca href=\"https://ta-nehisicoates.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003c/a>’s landmark 2014 essay in The Atlantic, songs about reparations blossomed anew, with artists like Nipsey Hussle, Jay-Z and others fueling the debate around the topic with their music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coates is part of a broader kind of collective movement thinking in a multifaceted way about all of the different terms of repair that Black folks deserve,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the more recent songs, which gained an even greater urgency because of the Black Lives Matter movement, go beyond the question of why reparations should be paid to Black Americans to also address the how and the when.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RXmfYM6dSFg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RXmfYM6dSFg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Nipsey Hussle’s 2018 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmfYM6dSFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dedication\u003c/a>” makes it clear that time has run out on waiting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How long should I stay dedicated?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How long ’til opportunity meet preparation?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I need some real n— reparations\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Before I run up in your bank just for recreation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 2013 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIduVOyoDE\">40 Acres\u003c/a>,” Pusha T makes it clear he wants land:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No change of heart, no change of mind\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>You can take what’s yours, but you gon’ leave what’s mine\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I’d rather die, than go home\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I’d rather die, than go home\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And I ain’t leaving without my 40 acres.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ofIduVOyoDE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ofIduVOyoDE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In “Rebel,” Choice says reparations should take the form of equity in housing, health care, education and other social structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it has to be more than just, ‘Here is a certain dollar amount,’” Choice told KQED. “Because it’s bigger than money. It’s the ability to live, sustain and uplift these communities that have been harmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choice said he plans to write more songs about reparations, but he’s not the only Bay Area artist with this intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11910752 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man with shoulder-length locks wearing a white undershirt and white pants hitched to below his knees, with tattoos on both arms, both hands, his back and the contours of his face, leans against one red sports car inside a garage, with his left leg (and a black-sneakered foot) propped on a second red sports car, whose door is open. He looks directly at the camera. Beyond the cars in the half-dark, shelves are visible, some empty and some holding what might be cleaning supplies or extra food supplies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55175_MG_6703-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nef the Pharaoh \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nef_the_Pharaoh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nef the Pharaoh\u003c/a> also expressed this desire. But even though the 27-year-old, Vallejo-based rapper is the creator of political songs like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHtt0ue9ZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Still I Rise\u003c/a>,” released in 2019, he said he’s been struggling to figure out how to make the subject of reparations resonate with his mostly teenage fan base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He almost created a reparations-themed project titled “Forty Acres and a Mule,” but changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like my listeners weren’t ready to pay attention to the topic,” he said. “And that was my fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef said it’s on artists like himself to make their fans pay attention. “We’ve got to give way more people game,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to “40 Acres and a Playlist” on \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5mG1JXeLPHQTazI9gmgCyi\">Spotify\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/40-acres-and-a-playlist/pl.u-PDb44ZVTLEmpvME\">Apple Music\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed?uri=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A5mG1JXeLPHQTazI9gmgCyi\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Corey Antonio Rose contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reparations in California\u003c/a> is a series of KQED stories exploring the road to racial equity in the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:55 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a contentious meeting Tuesday, California’s Reparations Task Force decided who would qualify for reparations under any proposals the committee recommends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad question the task force was considering: Should reparations be only for descendants of people enslaved in the United States or should reparations be extended to any Black person in the state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hours of debate, the nine-member task force voted 5-4 in favor of lineage-based reparations — a decision that has the potential to set precedent and affect other local, state and federal plans for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]“I move that we define the community of eligibility based on lineage determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel-enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” said task force member Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of UC Berkeley’s geography department, introducing the motion on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force Chair Kamilah Moore, who voted in favor of the motion, worried that making eligibility race-based would create fissures in the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under international law, reparations … is supposed to be a victim-led process and a victim-oriented process,” Moore said at Tuesday’s meeting. “So … with a race-based approach [to reparations eligibility], that is going to aggrieve the victims of the institution of slavery, which are the direct descendants of the enslaved people in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Cheryl Grills, who did not support the motion, said lineage-based reparations fail to encompass the full harms of enslavement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing reparations only for those who can prove their descendants from enslaved Africans is yet another win for white supremacy because it dismisses and devalues the harms done to African descendants not enslaved here, but who were injured by slavery due to their blackness once they entered the shores of America,” Grills said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lakitalki/status/1508832379971915785?s=20&t=8HyAz5R5Oou9o9kU65Rv9A\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Eligibility question has loomed for months\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The question of eligibility has loomed over the first-in-the-nation statewide task force since it began meeting in June. The topic also dominated meetings in February, when the task force tabled a decision until taking it up again this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One point of contention: Cash payments are expected to be one part of the reparations proposals, but there are a limited amount of financial resources. The eligibility discussion also has raised questions about lineage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cheryl Grills, task force member\"]‘If you can’t trace your family ancestry to enslaved Africans, what does that mean, for example, for scores of Black children in the child welfare system who probably can’t trace anything back more than a generation?’[/pullquote]During the January meeting, Secretary of State Shirley Weber — who, while a state legislator, authored AB 3121, the bill that established the task force — shared her intention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an issue not about being Black. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, May 12\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">Reparations in California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> is a series of KQED stories exploring the road to racial equity in the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#definition\">What’s the definition of reparations?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#taskforce\">Why did California create a task force to study reparations?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#paidbefore\">Have reparations been paid before?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#talkingnow\">Why are we talking about reparations now when slavery ended so long ago?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#needed\">Are reparations needed?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#enterunion\">Didn’t California enter the union as a slavery-free state?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#owed\">What is owed and who is eligible?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#looklike\">What might reparations look like? And how will compensation be granted?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cities\">Do California cities have their own reparations programs?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#happensafter\">What happens after the task force delivers its recommendations? And how can I participate?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was born and raised in California, and I feel a certain pride to be a product of this state. I’ve even considered getting a tattoo of the California produce sticker, like the neon orange ones from my youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother, who self-identifies as an Italian Jew, grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She arrived in California in the 1970s as a divorcée with a young child in tow — my brother. My father was raised in a Catholic family in rural Kerala, India. They had a mixed-faith and mixed-race marriage, but they found a home in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family benefited from government-subsidized housing in Palo Alto, one of the wealthiest cities in the country. My family story and personal trajectory could have been very different had either of my parents been Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the roots of racism run deep in this state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why I’ve been concentrating my reporting on the California Reparations Task Force, a nine-member body created to study and develop reparations proposals for Black Californians, with special consideration for descendants of those enslaved in the United States. The task force, which began conducting meetings in June 2021, is a result of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3121\">Assembly Bill 3121\u003c/a>, a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876194/first-in-the-us-californias-task-force-on-reparations-looks-at-harms-of-slavery\">written by Shirley Weber\u003c/a>, currently California’s secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11876194 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1920_GettyImages-941502582-1020x574.jpg']Academics, who have studied the various ways in which racism and white supremacy have created lasting inequities in the state, have testified before the task force, as have people who have been affected by that racism. The meetings are creating a necessary archive of California’s history that wasn’t taught in most schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I chose to cover the task force, not only because it’s groundbreaking and its recommendations could potentially serve as a model for the rest of the country, but also because the hearings are deeply moving. There’s a disconnect between who we say we are as Californians and what we do in practice. We should unpack the history of this state and reexamine it in a way that decenters whiteness and the prevailing sanitized version of our history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important for the future of our aspiring multiracial democracy to set the record straight — and, as Amos Brown, the pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and vice chair of the task force likes to say, “return to the scene of the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The egregious discrimination and racism in California can be traced to the state’s founding. It’s necessary to look at the systems put in place by the state’s “founding fathers” that were designed to allow some to prosper and others to fail. So, when people ask me why I’m so interested in reparations, what I want to ask in return is, “Why aren’t you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]The call for reparations is specifically about race and enslavement, but it touches on basic questions of accountability and fairness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1850, California entered the union as a slavery-free state. Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/index.html\">the state benefited from the exploitation of enslaved Black and Indigenous people\u003c/a>, as documented by Gold Chains, the ACLU’s exhaustive look at the hidden history of slavery in California. The beauty and promise of the state’s beaches and palm-tree-lined educational institutions contrasts starkly with its ugly past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing ramifications of slavery are seen in the glaring disparities in the criminal justice system and health outcomes. Historical data also shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/income-and-wealth-inequality-in-america-1949-2016\">no progress has been made in reducing wealth inequalities between Black and white\u003c/a> households over the past 70 years, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s coverage of the state’s reparations task force is for anyone who wonders about bigger questions like, why is there a disproportionate number of unhoused Black people? Why are incarceration rates highest for Black people? How do guns make it into Black communities? Why do Black communities lack what’s easily accessible to predominantly white communities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grocery stores, libraries, restaurants, banks and basic investment are missing in Black communities, many that were formed because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">discriminatory redlining policies\u003c/a>. And when investors descend on Black communities, why is it that Black people are displaced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History provides context, and yet our education system fails to trace the throughlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of men holding shovels standing next to a pile of rocks with a horse-drawn wagon in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-800x718.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-1536x1378.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enslaved people work in a California gold mine in 1852. \u003ccite>(Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why haven’t Black people been compensated for more than two centuries of enslavement and the subsequent restrictive and discriminatory laws enacted to stifle their progress?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reparations is an issue, ironically, that’s been used as a divisive issue, but it means to repair relationships — that should be seen as a very positive kind of thing to do,” Charles P. Henry, a professor emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, told me in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you get an agreement on the basic facts of what happened, and then the acknowledgment of what happened, it’s impossible to move to the next process,” Henry continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feel any sense of pride and appreciation for this state, and the nation as a whole, then examining California’s history is essential to imagining a more equitable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I compiled this FAQ to help guide readers through understanding the work of the reparations task force, and how that work fits into the broader local and national conversations. Think of this as a living document, as I’ll be updating this space as the task force progresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"definition\">\u003c/a>What’s the definition of reparations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The term “reparation” comes from “repair.” Scholars often see reparations as a form of redress that can take two forms: restitution or atonement. Restitution is often seen as concrete and monetary, while atonement focuses on the ethical, moral and intangible nature of apology. One without the other wouldn’t fly for true reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Charles P. Henry, professor emeritus of African American Studies, UC Berkeley\"]‘Reparations is an issue, ironically, that’s been used as a divisive issue — but it means to repair relationships.’[/pullquote]In modern reparations discussions, the focus is on three main principles: acknowledgment, redress and closure. For Roy L. Brooks, who provided expert testimony to the task force in September and is the author of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343405/atonement-and-forgiveness\">Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations\u003c/a>,” a return of what has been unjustly taken is an essential element of reparations. In his book, he argues no one should be able to benefit from an injustice, and that victims should be compensated and the harm caused by the injustice removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taskforce\">\u003c/a>Why did California create a task force to study reparations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A better question might be, why has it taken so long for the United States to study and develop reparations proposals for ancestors of the enslaved? In the wake of protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, Shirley Weber, then a California Assemblymember, authored AB 3121. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill in September 2020, establishing the nine-member task force to examine ways California might provide reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force is expected to submit a first report to the state Legislature this summer. A final report, which is expected to include recommendations and proposals, will be submitted next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of zoom meeting with participants faces\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53402_001_KQED_CAReparatioinsTaskForce_01282022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the California Reparations Task Force listen to public comment during a virtual meeting on Jan. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"paidbefore\">\u003c/a>Have reparations been paid before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but not on the federal or state level for chattel slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might’ve heard about “40 acres and a mule” before. It’s the name of Spike Lee’s film production company. Here’s where that comes from: In 1865, Special Field Order No. 15 authorized the distribution of 40-acre parcels of abandoned or confiscated land in the Confederate South to emancipated people. Some were given mules left over from the war — hence, 40 acres and a mule. After President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the \u003ca href=\"https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Racial-Relations-during-Reconstruction_.pdf\">Southern apologist and vice president Andrew Johnson\u003c/a> assumed the presidency. He ordered that all the redistributed land be returned to the original owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the federal level, reparations were awarded by the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 in response to the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were American citizens, during World War II. The legislation authorized a national apology, an education fund and individual payments of $20,000 to each surviving person who was imprisoned. Even earlier, in 1946, the federal government created the Indian Claims Commission to respond to more than 100 years of treaty violations and land theft from Indigenous peoples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11906015 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53414_006_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1020x680.jpg']Several cities across the country, including Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, have created reparation programs to address harms committed locally. On the state level, in 2021, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/12/31/california-launches-program-to-compensate-survivors-of-state-sponsored-sterilization/\">allocated financial compensation for survivors of forced sterilization\u003c/a> and acknowledged the wrongful sterilization of thousands of vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"talkingnow\">\u003c/a>Why are we talking about reparations now when slavery ended so long ago?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent racial reckoning, a greater awareness of structural inequities seems to have briefly seeped into the national consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussions of systemic inequality and white supremacy gained traction in communities across the country and around the world. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18246741/reparations-democrats-2020-inequality-warren-harris-castro\">several Democratic candidates for president issued statements expressing different levels of support for reparations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles P. Henry, professor emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, noted that public opinion polling has shifted generally to more “pro-reparations among Democrats and independents.” But he credits the development of the Black Lives Matter movement and the “embrace of white supremacy by the Trump administration” for amplifying the quest for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black protester with pink bandana over their faces raises a fist along with other protesters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"needed\">\u003c/a>Are reparations needed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without some kind of policy change and reparations, wealth inequality will continue to grow. Thomas Craemer — a public policy professor specializing in race relations and reparations at the University of Connecticut who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2KNh0-_y8\">testified before California’s reparations task force in October\u003c/a> — has done calculations to understand the financial implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slavery produced the start-up capital for the rise of the U.S. economy at the exclusive expense of the African Americans who were enslaved,” he said. “Their descendants deserve recognition of this fact through a comprehensive federal reparations program. Whatever California can do to support the call for federal reparations to the African American descendants of the enslaved in the U.S. will be an exercise in the restoration of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any interventions, Craemer said the wealth gap could become even more pronounced. Closing the gap in California alone could cost $778.6 billion, Craemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has there been federal legislation for reparations for Black Americans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/12/1054889820/a-bill-to-study-reparations-for-slavery-had-momentum-in-congress-but-still-no-vo\">HR 40\u003c/a>, named after the 40 acres promise, is a bill to study reparations on the national level. It was proposed by the late John Conyers Jr., a member of Congress from Michigan, for decades — every year since 1989 until he left office in 2017. In 2018, Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of Congress from Texas, took up the mantle. If passed, HR 40 would establish a 13-person commission to study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"enterunion\">\u003c/a>Didn’t California enter the union as a slavery-free state?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When California became a state in 1850, enslaved people had already been imported to the state. The ACLU’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/podcast/index.html\">Gold Chains podcast\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-meeting-materials-0921-part3.pdf\">testimony\u003c/a> to the state’s reparations task force from Stacy L. Smith, a USC professor and founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, provide an in-depth look at this early history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11905371 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CA-capitol-building-1020x574.jpg']Smith’s testimony detailed how California’s early state government protected the institution of slavery and severely restricted Black people’s civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s state constitution proclaimed that “neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State,” little was done to stop the violent exploitation of enslaved people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"owed\">\u003c/a>What is owed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are many different calculations used to determine what the cost of labor would be in today’s terms. Some include calculations for unpaid wages, the purchase prices of human property or the land promised to the formerly enslaved. National estimates range from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/slavery-reparations-cost-us-government-10-to-12-trillion.html\">$10 trillion\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.uconn.edu/2020/06/15/the-new-reparations-math/#\">$14 trillion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will be eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the February meeting, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909471/unpacking-reparations-eligibility-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted 5-4 in favor of lineage-based reparations\u003c/a> — a decision that has the potential to set precedent and affect other local, state and federal plans for reparations. The definition of the community of eligibility is “based on lineage determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel-enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” said task force member Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of UC Berkeley’s geography department, who introduced the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the task force has not yet determined what the formula for proving lineage will be. The criteria outlined by the authors of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,” A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr., provides one model. Darity, a professor of public policy and economics at Duke, and Mullen, a writer and folklorist, suggest eligibility on a federal level be based on two factors: American citizens should establish that they had at least one enslaved ancestor after the formation of the republic, and they would have to prove they self-identified as Black or African American at least 12 years before a reparations program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who has testified to California’s reparations task force?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of February, over 30 people have provided their expertise. Some names that might be familiar include the following (click a name to watch their testimony):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRosq_2GCE\">Isabel Wilkerson\u003c/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUE91a3cf_c\">Mehrsa Baradaran\u003c/a>, UC Irvine law professor and author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/670990780?embedded=false&source=video_title&owner=5065180\">Safiya U. Noble\u003c/a>, internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/vRtsUTLhqbc\">William Spriggs\u003c/a>, economics professor at Howard University and chief economist for the AFL-CIO\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/t72wzjJnIBo\">Rucker Johnson\u003c/a>, professor of public policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uEaNq95dXHk\">Daina Ramey Berry\u003c/a>, chair of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao5any6D97c\">Darrick Hamilton\u003c/a>, professor of economics and urban policy at the New School for Social Research\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A full list of those who have testified \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">is available on the California Department of Justice website\u003c/a> under each meeting date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"looklike\">\u003c/a>What might reparations look like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, the chair of California’s reparations task force, told KQED in a recent interview that reparations could look like direct payments, subsidies for free mental health care and other forms of restitution such as the return of land, similar to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891836/a-black-family-got-their-beach-back-and-inspired-others-to-fight-against-land-theft\">case of Bruce’s Beach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11891836 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr146-a9c2f203ff6c47e533d385d9548763cc026c8fc0-1020x764.jpg']Reparations might also take the form of policy changes in policing and sentencing. People who have testified before the task force have brought up education subsidies, support for genealogy studies, reinvestment and funding for archiving and preserving arts and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will compensation be granted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The task force is working with a team of economists to decide how to compensate descendants of enslaved people and what financial models will be used to come up with a number. Many advocates and scholars believe that it would be best to have a federal reparations process instead of multiple separate state and local initiatives for the purpose of compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"cities\">\u003c/a>Do California cities have their own reparations programs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some cities have established programs and committees to examine reparatory justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors established the 15-member \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/public-body/african-american-reparations-advisory-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee\u003c/a> in December 2020. The advisory committee holds public meetings on the second Monday of the month and submitted its \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/AA%20Reparations%20Advisory%20Committee%20-%20December%202021%20Update%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first report\u003c/a> in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Berkeley City Council voted in March 2022 to allocate $350,000 for a consultant to design and implement a reparations process. The consultant is tasked with holding symposiums for the public about the generational wealth gap, barriers to economic mobility and systemic racism. They will also work with the community to make policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it in my DNA. I feel like the people before me … whose bones are in the ground are humming right now,” said City Council member Ben Bartlett, who authored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartlett hopes to have someone in place before 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn 2021, the Hayward City Council apologized for the harms from the real estate and banking industry against African Americans and other people of color. The Hayward Community Services Commission also created a list of 10 steps the city could take to address historical racism. Hayward’s formal apology to Russell City residents and their descendants was spurred by the actions of residents like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other local initiatives in Oakland, Alameda County, Compton and San Diego. Some argue that programs like Stockton’s universal basic income effort provide a form of reparatory justice. But since UBI programs are not specifically targeted toward descendants of enslaved people, they don’t meet the full definition of both restitution and atonement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is there a local initiative in your community or city you would like to share? Let us know: Lsarah@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"happensafter\">\u003c/a>What happens after the task force delivers its recommendations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It will be up to the Legislature to decide whether or not to implement policy change or act upon the recommendations from the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who gets to participate?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a few different ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898258/how-to-participate-in-californias-reparations-task-force-meetings\">get involved\u003c/a>, such as watching meetings online and participating in public comment. But there’s also a bigger push to hear from African Americans in California through listening sessions across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the state reparations task force, in partnership with the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, will begin conducting sessions to hear from individuals. The session logistics are still being worked out, but the basic goal is to hear from California’s diverse Black communities about how the legacy of slavery has affected their lives and how they’d like to see California work to make it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I stay informed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By watching this space, of course. You also can keep an eye on the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, a statewide coalition of organizations and one of the anchor organizations working with the task force, to stay informed about upcoming events and listening sessions. California’s Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">shares information from each meeting\u003c/a>, including meeting materials with a detailed agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The call for reparations is specifically about race and enslavement, but it touches on basic questions of accountability and fairness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1850, California entered the union as a slavery-free state. Still, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/index.html\">the state benefited from the exploitation of enslaved Black and Indigenous people\u003c/a>, as documented by Gold Chains, the ACLU’s exhaustive look at the hidden history of slavery in California. The beauty and promise of the state’s beaches and palm-tree-lined educational institutions contrasts starkly with its ugly past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing ramifications of slavery are seen in the glaring disparities in the criminal justice system and health outcomes. Historical data also shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/income-and-wealth-inequality-in-america-1949-2016\">no progress has been made in reducing wealth inequalities between Black and white\u003c/a> households over the past 70 years, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s coverage of the state’s reparations task force is for anyone who wonders about bigger questions like, why is there a disproportionate number of unhoused Black people? Why are incarceration rates highest for Black people? How do guns make it into Black communities? Why do Black communities lack what’s easily accessible to predominantly white communities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grocery stores, libraries, restaurants, banks and basic investment are missing in Black communities, many that were formed because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">discriminatory redlining policies\u003c/a>. And when investors descend on Black communities, why is it that Black people are displaced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History provides context, and yet our education system fails to trace the throughlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906238\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of men holding shovels standing next to a pile of rocks with a horse-drawn wagon in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-800x718.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-1020x915.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SlavesMine-1536x1378.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enslaved people work in a California gold mine in 1852. \u003ccite>(Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why haven’t Black people been compensated for more than two centuries of enslavement and the subsequent restrictive and discriminatory laws enacted to stifle their progress?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reparations is an issue, ironically, that’s been used as a divisive issue, but it means to repair relationships — that should be seen as a very positive kind of thing to do,” Charles P. Henry, a professor emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, told me in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you get an agreement on the basic facts of what happened, and then the acknowledgment of what happened, it’s impossible to move to the next process,” Henry continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feel any sense of pride and appreciation for this state, and the nation as a whole, then examining California’s history is essential to imagining a more equitable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I compiled this FAQ to help guide readers through understanding the work of the reparations task force, and how that work fits into the broader local and national conversations. Think of this as a living document, as I’ll be updating this space as the task force progresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"definition\">\u003c/a>What’s the definition of reparations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The term “reparation” comes from “repair.” Scholars often see reparations as a form of redress that can take two forms: restitution or atonement. Restitution is often seen as concrete and monetary, while atonement focuses on the ethical, moral and intangible nature of apology. One without the other wouldn’t fly for true reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Several cities across the country, including Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, have created reparation programs to address harms committed locally. On the state level, in 2021, California \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/12/31/california-launches-program-to-compensate-survivors-of-state-sponsored-sterilization/\">allocated financial compensation for survivors of forced sterilization\u003c/a> and acknowledged the wrongful sterilization of thousands of vulnerable people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"talkingnow\">\u003c/a>Why are we talking about reparations now when slavery ended so long ago?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent racial reckoning, a greater awareness of structural inequities seems to have briefly seeped into the national consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussions of systemic inequality and white supremacy gained traction in communities across the country and around the world. In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18246741/reparations-democrats-2020-inequality-warren-harris-castro\">several Democratic candidates for president issued statements expressing different levels of support for reparations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles P. Henry, professor emeritus of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, noted that public opinion polling has shifted generally to more “pro-reparations among Democrats and independents.” But he credits the development of the Black Lives Matter movement and the “embrace of white supremacy by the Trump administration” for amplifying the quest for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black protester with pink bandana over their faces raises a fist along with other protesters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS43421_005_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"needed\">\u003c/a>Are reparations needed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Without some kind of policy change and reparations, wealth inequality will continue to grow. Thomas Craemer — a public policy professor specializing in race relations and reparations at the University of Connecticut who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2KNh0-_y8\">testified before California’s reparations task force in October\u003c/a> — has done calculations to understand the financial implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Slavery produced the start-up capital for the rise of the U.S. economy at the exclusive expense of the African Americans who were enslaved,” he said. “Their descendants deserve recognition of this fact through a comprehensive federal reparations program. Whatever California can do to support the call for federal reparations to the African American descendants of the enslaved in the U.S. will be an exercise in the restoration of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without any interventions, Craemer said the wealth gap could become even more pronounced. Closing the gap in California alone could cost $778.6 billion, Craemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has there been federal legislation for reparations for Black Americans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/12/1054889820/a-bill-to-study-reparations-for-slavery-had-momentum-in-congress-but-still-no-vo\">HR 40\u003c/a>, named after the 40 acres promise, is a bill to study reparations on the national level. It was proposed by the late John Conyers Jr., a member of Congress from Michigan, for decades — every year since 1989 until he left office in 2017. In 2018, Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of Congress from Texas, took up the mantle. If passed, HR 40 would establish a 13-person commission to study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"enterunion\">\u003c/a>Didn’t California enter the union as a slavery-free state?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When California became a state in 1850, enslaved people had already been imported to the state. The ACLU’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/podcast/index.html\">Gold Chains podcast\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-meeting-materials-0921-part3.pdf\">testimony\u003c/a> to the state’s reparations task force from Stacy L. Smith, a USC professor and founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, provide an in-depth look at this early history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Smith’s testimony detailed how California’s early state government protected the institution of slavery and severely restricted Black people’s civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s state constitution proclaimed that “neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State,” little was done to stop the violent exploitation of enslaved people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"owed\">\u003c/a>What is owed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are many different calculations used to determine what the cost of labor would be in today’s terms. Some include calculations for unpaid wages, the purchase prices of human property or the land promised to the formerly enslaved. National estimates range from \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/slavery-reparations-cost-us-government-10-to-12-trillion.html\">$10 trillion\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.uconn.edu/2020/06/15/the-new-reparations-math/#\">$14 trillion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will be eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the February meeting, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909471/unpacking-reparations-eligibility-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted 5-4 in favor of lineage-based reparations\u003c/a> — a decision that has the potential to set precedent and affect other local, state and federal plans for reparations. The definition of the community of eligibility is “based on lineage determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel-enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” said task force member Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of UC Berkeley’s geography department, who introduced the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the task force has not yet determined what the formula for proving lineage will be. The criteria outlined by the authors of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,” A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr., provides one model. Darity, a professor of public policy and economics at Duke, and Mullen, a writer and folklorist, suggest eligibility on a federal level be based on two factors: American citizens should establish that they had at least one enslaved ancestor after the formation of the republic, and they would have to prove they self-identified as Black or African American at least 12 years before a reparations program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who has testified to California’s reparations task force?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of February, over 30 people have provided their expertise. Some names that might be familiar include the following (click a name to watch their testimony):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRosq_2GCE\">Isabel Wilkerson\u003c/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUE91a3cf_c\">Mehrsa Baradaran\u003c/a>, UC Irvine law professor and author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/670990780?embedded=false&source=video_title&owner=5065180\">Safiya U. Noble\u003c/a>, internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/vRtsUTLhqbc\">William Spriggs\u003c/a>, economics professor at Howard University and chief economist for the AFL-CIO\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/t72wzjJnIBo\">Rucker Johnson\u003c/a>, professor of public policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uEaNq95dXHk\">Daina Ramey Berry\u003c/a>, chair of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao5any6D97c\">Darrick Hamilton\u003c/a>, professor of economics and urban policy at the New School for Social Research\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A full list of those who have testified \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/meetings\">is available on the California Department of Justice website\u003c/a> under each meeting date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"looklike\">\u003c/a>What might reparations look like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, the chair of California’s reparations task force, told KQED in a recent interview that reparations could look like direct payments, subsidies for free mental health care and other forms of restitution such as the return of land, similar to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891836/a-black-family-got-their-beach-back-and-inspired-others-to-fight-against-land-theft\">case of Bruce’s Beach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reparations might also take the form of policy changes in policing and sentencing. People who have testified before the task force have brought up education subsidies, support for genealogy studies, reinvestment and funding for archiving and preserving arts and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will compensation be granted?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The task force is working with a team of economists to decide how to compensate descendants of enslaved people and what financial models will be used to come up with a number. Many advocates and scholars believe that it would be best to have a federal reparations process instead of multiple separate state and local initiatives for the purpose of compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"cities\">\u003c/a>Do California cities have their own reparations programs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some cities have established programs and committees to examine reparatory justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors established the 15-member \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/public-body/african-american-reparations-advisory-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee\u003c/a> in December 2020. The advisory committee holds public meetings on the second Monday of the month and submitted its \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/AA%20Reparations%20Advisory%20Committee%20-%20December%202021%20Update%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first report\u003c/a> in December 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Berkeley City Council voted in March 2022 to allocate $350,000 for a consultant to design and implement a reparations process. The consultant is tasked with holding symposiums for the public about the generational wealth gap, barriers to economic mobility and systemic racism. They will also work with the community to make policy recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it in my DNA. I feel like the people before me … whose bones are in the ground are humming right now,” said City Council member Ben Bartlett, who authored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartlett hopes to have someone in place before 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn 2021, the Hayward City Council apologized for the harms from the real estate and banking industry against African Americans and other people of color. The Hayward Community Services Commission also created a list of 10 steps the city could take to address historical racism. Hayward’s formal apology to Russell City residents and their descendants was spurred by the actions of residents like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other local initiatives in Oakland, Alameda County, Compton and San Diego. Some argue that programs like Stockton’s universal basic income effort provide a form of reparatory justice. But since UBI programs are not specifically targeted toward descendants of enslaved people, they don’t meet the full definition of both restitution and atonement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is there a local initiative in your community or city you would like to share? Let us know: Lsarah@kqed.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"happensafter\">\u003c/a>What happens after the task force delivers its recommendations?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It will be up to the Legislature to decide whether or not to implement policy change or act upon the recommendations from the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who gets to participate?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a few different ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898258/how-to-participate-in-californias-reparations-task-force-meetings\">get involved\u003c/a>, such as watching meetings online and participating in public comment. But there’s also a bigger push to hear from African Americans in California through listening sessions across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the state reparations task force, in partnership with the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, will begin conducting sessions to hear from individuals. The session logistics are still being worked out, but the basic goal is to hear from California’s diverse Black communities about how the legacy of slavery has affected their lives and how they’d like to see California work to make it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I stay informed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">Reparations in California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> is a series of KQED stories exploring the road to racial equity in the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Donald Tamaki sat in an empty auditorium at Golden Gate University in San Francisco flipping through pages of a photo album until he found what he was looking for.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Donald Tamaki, member, California Reparations Task Force\"]‘For those who think that the current reparations effort for Black Americans is a pipe dream, that it’s impossible, I remind them that, actually, it was done before.’[/pullquote]From underneath the clear page protector, an image of his mother’s face beamed up at him. By her side in the photo are two of her grandchildren. One holds a letter and the other a white paper check from the United States government for $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki’s parents were among the estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/redress\">82,000 Japanese Americans who received reparations\u003c/a> more than three decades ago for the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. It was in this auditorium, in 1981, that Tamaki’s father testified in front of a commission established to explore reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month marks the 80th year since Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were imprisoned, beginning in 1942. The U.S. government claimed that the wartime incarceration was necessary to prevent sabotage and spying following the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the displacement of people of Japanese ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A finger pointing to a photo of a women in an album.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Tamaki, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, points to a photo of his mother in an album compiled by his parents, documenting the 1981 Japanese American reparations movement. Below the photo is a check for $20,000 that his parents received as reparation for the injustice inflicted on them during World War II. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incarceration was the result of a racist hysteria in a country that still hasn’t reckoned with its long history of racism. In California, there were \u003ca href=\"https://maps.densho.org/sitesofshame/?facilityCategories=WRA%7CEAIS%7CHawaii&farDestVisible=true&farPreVisible=true&farSelectedCamp=&lat=37.2875&layers=exclusion%20orders%7Csos-facilities&lng=-117.6780&selectedFamily=&zoom=5.078681400972185\">23 sites\u003c/a> where Japanese people, many of whom were American-born citizens, including Tamaki’s parents, were imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three decades since his mother received some compensation and an apology for the injustices she suffered, Tamaki, a senior attorney at San Francisco law firm Minami Tamaki LLP, is working on another reparations movement, this time for Black Californians. Tamaki, 70, is a member of California’s Reparations Task Force, the nine-member group appointed to study the issue and recommend proposals to address the systemic marginalization and oppression of Black people in California since the state’s founding in 1850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Oakland, Tamaki is the only non-Black member of the task force. He said his parents’ incarceration was connected to white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrenchment of white supremacy in this country’s institutions and laws has handcuffed the experience of Black people in America since the first enslaved Africans were delivered to Virginia’s shores in 1619.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"japanese-american-internment\"]“Every person of color has been impacted by it, but some groups certainly worse than others and none more persistently and as long and horrifically, I think, as African Americans,” said Tamaki, who was appointed to the task force by Gov. Gavin Newsom. “The Japanese American incarceration that my family faced was simply just a permutation and was an offshoot of that system that permitted it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both born and raised in the Bay Area, Tamaki’s parents — his father, Minoru, and his mother, Iyo — were in their early 20s when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In the aftermath of the attack, law enforcement officials raided Japanese American communities along the West Coast, ordering curfews for residents and arresting community leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minoru’s family removed anything from their home that appeared Japanese, burning family photos and wall hangings containing calligraphy. Iyo’s family found hate mail slipped under the door of the family’s tailoring shop in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minoru and Iyo, along with nearly 8,000 Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry, were required to report to a detention center at Tanforan Racetrack, a horse-racing facility in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minoru’s family closed the hotel they owned in San Francisco’s Japantown, handing the keys to an acquaintance, who was Black, to keep safe. Minoru stopped attending pharmacology classes at UC Berkeley. Japanese people were told to pack only essentials — something to sleep on, eating utensils, cups and plates — for Tanforan, and they weren’t given any information on how long they’d be incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minoru, Iyo and their families slept in hastily converted horse stalls for months before being sent 700 miles away to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. They were not allowed to return home for three years. At the end of the war, Minoru’s family settled in Oakland and reopened their hotel across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s current reparations task force is modeled, in part, after the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, the body that studied and recommended reparations for Japanese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man posing in a hall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53448_038_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Tamaki, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, outside Golden Gate University in San Francisco on Feb. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Commission members traveled around the country to gather testimony from people who experienced wartime incarceration. For the three days the commission was in the Bay Area in 1981, public hearings were held in Golden Gate University’s auditorium, during which \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/JA-Reparations-Finney-Minoru-Tamaki-CWRIC-Testimony.mp3\">Minoru shared his story of imprisonment\u003c/a> and how it affected his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki, then a young lawyer, wasn’t able to see his father’s testimony on the third day because he was working to overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American man from Oakland who had resisted incarceration. Korematsu claimed the exclusion of a specific racial group from the West Coast was unconstitutional. The 1942 conviction was formally vacated in 1983.[aside postID=news_11905371 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/CA-capitol-building-1020x574.jpg']“I didn’t view it as being particularly historic at the time,” Tamaki said of his father’s testimony, during his first trip back to the auditorium since the hearings. “It was a defining moment in my own parents’ lives. Up to that point, they had never talked about what had happened. After this, they began to speak out and open up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the reparations movement, it was common for people who’d been through incarceration to keep quiet about what they endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culturally speaking, one Japanese tradition is the tradition of gaman. Gaman, loosely translated, means you endure hardship,” Tamaki said. “You don’t say anything about it. You deal with it and you just suck it up, basically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki said it was also a form of survival in a society dominated by white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these folks who were put in concentration camps when the war ended returned to the very communities that exiled them in the first place,” Tamaki said. “And so the way of dealing with it was to not talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in a garden.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Kubota Lee outside her home in Mill Valley on Jan. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1981, Naomi Kubota Lee, then a UC Berkeley undergraduate student, was the co-chair for the San Francisco branch of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncrr-la.org/about.html\">National Coalition for Redress/Reparations\u003c/a>, a Japanese American grassroots organization that organized people to testify at the commission hearings. Lee’s parents and grandparents were incarcerated at Topaz with Tamaki’s parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee keeps an archive from the hearings, filled with transcripts of testimony and handbills, stored in three rows of filing boxes in a studio in her Mill Valley home. She remembers sitting in the audience, surrounded by other Japanese Americans, listening to people describe their experiences, in some cases, for the very first time. The rapt audience cheered for the speakers, while also weeping with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really quite an emotional process when I reopen and read some testimonies here and there,” Lee said. “I can actually remember the people. Their voices come back into my thinking. There’s a healing thing about being heard, being listened to finally. It wasn’t just for the commissioners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill granting reparations passed on Aug. 4, 1988. The package included $20,000 for each survivor, a letter of apology from President George H.W. Bush and a federal grant program to fund public education projects about Japanese American incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave me a sense that it really honored my ancestors,” Lee said. “I think that’s the first feeling I had — happiness for them. Maybe not happiness, but just that it reversed the terrible silence surrounding the camps and what they had to live through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906159\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A women looks through an album.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53332_038_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Kubota Lee looks through her archive of documents and photos relating to the Japanese American redress and reparations movement, at her home in Mill Valley on Jan. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In total, just over two-thirds of the people incarcerated received monetary reparations. Many, like Lee’s grandparents, passed away before they could receive a payment. While the checks didn’t repay Japanese Americans for what was lost, Lee said the money provided recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki said it was being viewed as an American — deserving of an apology and compensation — that mattered most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the problem for all people of color, this concept that you’re a perpetual foreigner, you’re not a real American,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the way Black Americans organized during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s that galvanized Japanese Americans to demand reparations, according to Tamaki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We grew up not knowing who we were. Racism becomes so pervasive that it’s normal. We saw ourselves as second-class citizens,” he said. “It wasn’t until the Black civil rights movement that our community, my father included, and others began to realize that this is not normal. This is not the way it should be. And I think that motivated him to testify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Someone holding a black-and-white photo of a family.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53339_046_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Kubota Lee looks at photos of her family from when they were imprisoned at the Topaz concentration camp during WWII. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This summer, the task force Tamaki is part of will host listening sessions across the state, in partnership with UCLA’s Ralph J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From underneath the clear page protector, an image of his mother’s face beamed up at him. By her side in the photo are two of her grandchildren. One holds a letter and the other a white paper check from the United States government for $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki’s parents were among the estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/redress\">82,000 Japanese Americans who received reparations\u003c/a> more than three decades ago for the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. It was in this auditorium, in 1981, that Tamaki’s father testified in front of a commission established to explore reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month marks the 80th year since Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were imprisoned, beginning in 1942. The U.S. government claimed that the wartime incarceration was necessary to prevent sabotage and spying following the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the displacement of people of Japanese ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906161\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A finger pointing to a photo of a women in an album.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53419_010_KQED_ReparatioinsTaskForce_DonTamaki_02012022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Tamaki, a member of the California Reparations Task Force, points to a photo of his mother in an album compiled by his parents, documenting the 1981 Japanese American reparations movement. Below the photo is a check for $20,000 that his parents received as reparation for the injustice inflicted on them during World War II. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incarceration was the result of a racist hysteria in a country that still hasn’t reckoned with its long history of racism. In California, there were \u003ca href=\"https://maps.densho.org/sitesofshame/?facilityCategories=WRA%7CEAIS%7CHawaii&farDestVisible=true&farPreVisible=true&farSelectedCamp=&lat=37.2875&layers=exclusion%20orders%7Csos-facilities&lng=-117.6780&selectedFamily=&zoom=5.078681400972185\">23 sites\u003c/a> where Japanese people, many of whom were American-born citizens, including Tamaki’s parents, were imprisoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three decades since his mother received some compensation and an apology for the injustices she suffered, Tamaki, a senior attorney at San Francisco law firm Minami Tamaki LLP, is working on another reparations movement, this time for Black Californians. Tamaki, 70, is a member of California’s Reparations Task Force, the nine-member group appointed to study the issue and recommend proposals to address the systemic marginalization and oppression of Black people in California since the state’s founding in 1850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Oakland, Tamaki is the only non-Black member of the task force. He said his parents’ incarceration was connected to white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrenchment of white supremacy in this country’s institutions and laws has handcuffed the experience of Black people in America since the first enslaved Africans were delivered to Virginia’s shores in 1619.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I didn’t view it as being particularly historic at the time,” Tamaki said of his father’s testimony, during his first trip back to the auditorium since the hearings. “It was a defining moment in my own parents’ lives. Up to that point, they had never talked about what had happened. After this, they began to speak out and open up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the reparations movement, it was common for people who’d been through incarceration to keep quiet about what they endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culturally speaking, one Japanese tradition is the tradition of gaman. Gaman, loosely translated, means you endure hardship,” Tamaki said. “You don’t say anything about it. You deal with it and you just suck it up, basically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamaki said it was also a form of survival in a society dominated by white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these folks who were put in concentration camps when the war ended returned to the very communities that exiled them in the first place,” Tamaki said. “And so the way of dealing with it was to not talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11906166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in a garden.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53324_030_KQED_NaomiKubotaLee_01272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Kubota Lee outside her home in Mill Valley on Jan. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1981, Naomi Kubota Lee, then a UC Berkeley undergraduate student, was the co-chair for the San Francisco branch of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncrr-la.org/about.html\">National Coalition for Redress/Reparations\u003c/a>, a Japanese American grassroots organization that organized people to testify at the commission hearings. Lee’s parents and grandparents were incarcerated at Topaz with Tamaki’s parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee keeps an archive from the hearings, filled with transcripts of testimony and handbills, stored in three rows of filing boxes in a studio in her Mill Valley home. She remembers sitting in the audience, surrounded by other Japanese Americans, listening to people describe their experiences, in some cases, for the very first time. The rapt audience cheered for the speakers, while also weeping with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really quite an emotional process when I reopen and read some testimonies here and there,” Lee said. “I can actually remember the people. Their voices come back into my thinking. There’s a healing thing about being heard, being listened to finally. It wasn’t just for the commissioners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill granting reparations passed on Aug. 4, 1988. The package included $20,000 for each survivor, a letter of apology from President George H.W. Bush and a federal grant program to fund public education projects about Japanese American incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave me a sense that it really honored my ancestors,” Lee said. “I think that’s the first feeling I had — happiness for them. 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