San Diego library hosting Sept. 19 forum on reparations for slavery

SAN DIEGO —  The San Diego Library will host on Sept. 19 a community discussion focused on the California Reparations Task Force, a panel exploring...

September 17, 2022
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SAN DIEGO —  The San Diego Library will host on Sept. 19 a community discussion focused on the California Reparations Task Force, a panel exploring the idea of reparations for African Americans and who should be eligible to receive compensation for the effects of slavery.The forum will be livestreamed on Zoom. It will cover the objectives of the task force and a 500-page interim report it issued in June. San Diego State University Africana Studies Department Chair Adisa Alkebulan will moderate.Panelists will include San Diego City Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe, who is part of the nine-member task force, and Jerry Moss, a member of the San Diego African American Genealogy Research Group.

David Garrick Sept. 15