27 FEBRUARY 2024/SF POLITICS/HOLLY SECON The reparations conversation has been sidelined amid ongoing budget trouble, but on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was preparing to vote on a resolution to offer the Black community a formal apology for past harms. “An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric,” responded Rev…. Continue reading
San Francisco’s first-ever Office of Reparations is among the programs gutted by Mayor London Breed’s budget cuts. Funding for the office, which was set to launch this year, was erased as part of Breed’s $75 million cuts to the The City budget in preparation for a major deficit in 2024. Though it’s… Continue reading
Madison Alvarado/San Francisco Public Press At a Board of Supervisors hearing on proposed reparations to the Black community, many shared their families’ experience of being pushed out of the city by urban renewal and other discriminatory practices. 09.21.2023 | by MADISON ALVARADO AND ZHE WU | In June, Mayor London Breed agreed to set aside $4… Continue reading
Black speakers urged the Board of Supervisors to stand ‘on the right side of history’ during an hours-long public comment session on reparations. That may well happen, but getting people paid will require more than that. by JUNYAO YANG SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) San Francisco’s task force on Black reparations presented… Continue reading
News outlets miss the point, ignore the context, and can’t even do basic math. By TIM REDMOND SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 (48hills.org) The Board of Supes held a hearing on the final report of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee, and already the media coverage continues in its past pattern: It’s somewhere… Continue reading
KALW | By Sunni Khalid Published August 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM PDT (KALW.org) This interview aired in the August 14, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents. On July 7, San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted a report to the Board of Supervisors containing a series of recommendations aimed at redressing decades of… Continue reading
To qualify for reparations payments, San Francisco’s Black residents would need to have lived in The City for less time and more recently than initially proposed. The final reparations report, published last week, said that to be eligible, Black residents must — at a minimum — be adults who were… Continue reading
With $4 million secured to manage the program, supervisors will now consider cash payments, investment in African American neighborhoods and a wide range of other proposals Madison Alvarado/San Francisco Public Press Tinisch Hollins, with a copy of the draft reparations report, is one of 15 members of San Francisco’s Reparations… Continue reading
BAY AREA//JUSTIN PHILLIPS San Francisco’s reparations plan aims to provide Black San Franciscans with long-overdue economic mobility, and should serve as a blueprint for other cities around the country to follow. Justin Phillips July 9, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) It’s rare to hear University of San Francisco political science Professor James Taylor… Continue reading
The deadline for San Francisco’s landmark reparations report was extended without warning after June ended without its publication. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which will sunset in January, was expected to publish its final report on June 30, just one day after California’s reparations task force published its own…. Continue reading
