Newsom Signs Slavery Reparations Bill

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Newsom signs bill apologizing for California’s role in slavery - Washington Examiner

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Newsom signed a bill to apologize for the state’s role in promoting, facilitating, and permitting the institution of slavery.

In 2023 , California became the first state in the country to explore real restitution for racism in the state's history.

A task force determined that state courts had enforced fugitive slave laws and that more than 2,000 enslaved people were brought to California after it was admitted as a free state in 1850 .

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