Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park, speaks about his reparations bill on the Assembly floor on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed measures with potential economic benefits.

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 ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has rejected Assembly Bill 7, which sought to grant admissions preferences to descendants of enslaved individuals at public universities, delivering a blow to ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After more than a ...

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 ...

George Floyd, a Black man who had been detained by Minneapolis police after a store clerk alleged he had used a counterfeit $20 bill, died as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine ...

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 ...

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 ...