New York to set up commission to examine making slavery reparations

New York Governor Kathy Hochul addresses the media during a press conference in New York (Yuki Iwamura/AP) Maysoon Khan Today at 19:00 New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a Bill signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. “In New York, we like to think we’re on the right side of this. Slavery was a product of the South, the Confederacy,” said Ms Hochul at the Bill-signing ceremony in New York City.