Endorsements

We are asking organizations throughout California to endorse the work of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in an effort to raise awareness of reparations in advance of the state Legislature’s consideration of this critical issue in 2023. This is a grassroots resource and not an official website of the California Reparations Task Force or the California Department of Justice.

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The following organizations have endorsed the work of the reparations task force or the study of reparations. Unless otherwise noted, the organization listed has endorsed the mission, purpose, and efforts of the task force.

This list was updated on Friday, March 24, 2023, at 5:30 p.m.

* = Endorsed specifically the mission and overall efforts
** = Endorsed specifically the interim task force report
*** = Endorsed specifically the factual findings of the interim task force report
**** = Endorsed the general concept of studying reparations for African Americans and promoting awareness and conversation, but not specifically the Task Force, or the Interim Report.
***** = Endorsed the mission of the task force “without, at this point, specifically endorsing the specific findings and conclusions contained in the initial report of the Task Force”

We are asking organizations throughout California to endorse the work of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in an effort to raise awareness of reparations in advance of the state Legislature’s consideration of this critical issue in 2023.

This website provides a toolkit and resources to help organizations endorse the report. This is a grassroots resource and not an official website of the California Reparations Task Force or the California Department of Justice.

On June 1, 2022, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans released its Interim Report providing an in-depth overview of the cumulative, cascading, and continuing harms inflicted on African Americans resulting from 246 years of enslavement, 90 years of Jim Crow, and decades more of systemic discrimination. The Interim Report includes a preliminary set of recommendations to the California Legislature. A final report is expected to be issued in 2023.

The Reparations Task Force is a first-in-the-nation effort by a state government to study slavery, its effects throughout American history, and the compounding harms that the United States and Californian governments have inflicted upon African Americans.

We would like to thank the Japanese American Bar Association and the John M. Langston Bar Association, the first organizations to endorse the task force’s efforts.