Two historic California reparations bills stall out — sparing Newsom a tough political call

By Wendy Fry, Alexei Koseff and Sameea Kamal | CalMatters

A last-minute protest failed to win two Senate-approved bills a chance to be voted on in the Assembly. The chair of the Black Caucus promised they would be re-introduced next year, and called reparations “a multi-year effort.”

Years of effort went into making California the first state in the nation to get reparations laws to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. Yet tonight, in the final hours of this year’s legislative session...