Stories like Johnson's – and countless other Black families who have been victims of racist and discriminatory policies – are rarely told as part of California's history. But after a reparations taskforce undertook the unprecedented effort to consider redress for Black residents, stories like hers are finally being heard as a more complicated picture of California's past comes to light.
It's one that, despite California's founding in 1850 as a free state, has been marked by "atrocities in nearly every sector" of society over the past 172 years, according to a recent taskforce report, including land confiscation and housing discrimination…
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