Movement to Pay Black Americans Reparations for Slavery Gathers Steam Across the Country

California’s proposal to pay Black residents descended from slaves $233,000 each comes despite the fact that the state entered the American union in 1850 as a free state.

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Morris Griffin holds up a sign during a meeting of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans at Oakland, California. AP/Jeff Chiu

Moderate national Democrats hoping to steer their party down a more centrist path during the next election cycle are being pulled in the opposite direction by state and local officials around the country rallying around the divisive issue of reparations for Black Americans.

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