‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians

…Nancy and her descendants would go on to purchase more than 400 lush acres of farmland in Coloma. But what should have been a story of triumph ended instead as a tale all too familiar to formerly enslaved Black Americans across the US. The state of California seized the majority of that land under the guise of eminent domain to build a state park, and the family never received just compensation...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/09/california-reparations-slavery-african-americans