LOS ANGELES - Following the success of its first virtual town hall on October 20th of this year, the Reparations Advisory Commission welcomed more than 90 community members on Zoom and Facebook Live for Homecoming II, an interactive evening of shared experiences, collective memory, and shaping a future reparations program for Black Angelenos.
The blue-ribbon Commission, established by Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2021, is currently collecting community input to inform a reparations pilot program in the City of Los Angeles through public engagement events and an online survey open to the public.
Since Juneteenth 2022, the Commission has met with hundreds of Angelenos to share their work and collect input on a reparations program. At Homecoming II, the Commission took public comment via Zoom and telephone, and held interactive sessions to gather experiences and ideas around the following issue areas: Housing & Property, Policing, Surveillance and Mass Incarceration, Environmental & Health Outcomes, Education, Wealth Gap & Economics, Voting & Political Power, Broken Ties / Lost Familial Connections.
Watch the recorded livestream of the event below:
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