From New York Times:
New York will undertake an ambitious effort to address the state’s history of slavery and racism, establishing the United States’ third statewide task force to examine whether reparations can be made to confront the legacy of racial injustice.
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a bill that empowers a commission to study not only the history of slavery, which was outlawed in New York in 1827, but also its subsequent effects on housing discrimination, biased policing, income inequality and mass incarceration of African Americans.
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