New York State Reparations Committee Sets First Meeting

by Daniel Johnson July 27, 2024 The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies will have approximately a year and a half to produce a final report. Following New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signing of a bill in December 2023 to establish a commission to study reparations for the descendants of enslaved people and New York’s broader role in the slave trade, the commission is now set to hold its first meeting. According to Spectrum News, the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies is set to meet on July 30 at the Capitol in Albany to create an outline for their work, which will go on for approximately a year and a half.  At the conclusion of such time, the commission is expected to produce a report directly to the legislature by the close of 2025. The process is not dissimilar to the progress California has made earlier this year with its reparations study.  In New York’s case, although slavery was officially abolished in New York in 1827, there were insurance companies based in New York who would insure enslaved people.  The appointed commissioners range from experts at HBCUs to civil rights and poverty experts to faith...