Nearly two years into the California reparations task force’s work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of its final report recommending how the state should apologize and compensate Black residents for the harms caused by slavery and discrimination.
Duke University professor William A. Darity, pictured right, and writer A. Kirsten Mullen, left, argued that the federal government should foot the bill for $14 trillion reparations as it is culpable for slavery .