California is the 1st state to require its agencies to present a separate demographic category for descendants of enslaved people when collecting state employee data.
California is the first state to require its agencies to present a separate demographic category for descendants of enslaved people when collecting state employee data., the State Controller's Office and the Department of Human Resources can start collecting this information as soon as Jan. 1, 2024.
In recent years, the state has been working to determine whether the state will pay reparations to Black Californians, particularly those who are descendants of slaves. And this year, the California Reparations Task Forcefor state reparations — meaning only people who can prove they are descendants of slaves would be eligible.
Freedmen in California whose ancestors came to America in chains, were enslaved for hundreds of years, suffered Jim Crow, and yet managed to build the most powerful and wealthiest country in the world," the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California said in its news release.
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