California budget includes $12 million for reparations for Black residents

From The Washington Post:

California’s reparations movement reached a new milestone after state lawmakers recently set aside $12 million in its next budget to provide recompense to Black residents.

The allocation potentially represents the largest investment yet in the fledging campaign for reparations.

Recently, Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group, filed a lawsuit to stop the country’s first government-funded reparations program in Evanston, Ill., which had already paid nearly $5 million to 193 of the town’s Black residents.

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