California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed preferential college admissions to descendants of enslaved persons. The proposal arose as California continues its process of ...

Five years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom set in motion a process that would place on his desk a series of bills to advance reparations for California's descendants of slavery. Their arrival has revealed the ...

Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, D- CA 39, poses in this undated photo. The creation of a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery in California is a first-in-the-nation step toward moving reparations ...

Are you curious about which reparations in California? Learn more here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1050, a bill that would’ve created a state process for reviewing claims from people who ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at allowing universities to give the descendants of slaves special consideration in admissions, saying it was unnecessary as colleges already ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed bills that would have provided tangible benefits to those descendants, though he approved a state agency to determine who qualifies for potential reparations. By ...

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would ...

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, speaks about his reparations bill on the Assembly floor on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com The Legislative Black Caucus took a ...