After Assembly issues apology for California's role in slavery, some reparations bills die in Senate
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The California Assembly on Thursday voted to issue an official apology for the state's role in slavery and the systemic racism that ensued, but other bills meant to offer reparations died shortly afterward in the Senate. The apology is in a bill authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) that accepts responsibility for "all of the harms and atrocities committed by the state" and is part of a hard-fought legislative package for reparations for descendants of African Americans...

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