The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, gave final approval at a meeting in Oakland to a hefty list of proposals that now go to state lawmakers to consider for reparations legislation.
Elaine Brown, former Black Panther Party chairwoman, urged people to express their frustrations through demonstrations.
Some estimates from economists have projected that the state could owe upwards of $800 billion, or more than 2.5 times its annual budget, in reparations to Black people. The task force voted previously to limit reparations to descendants of enslaved or free Black people who were in the country by the end of the 19th century.
In New York, a bill to acknowledge the inhumanity of slavery in the state and create a commission to study reparations proposals has passed the Assembly but not received a vote in the Senate.
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