Here are the morning\u2019s top stories on Friday, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n
On this Juneteenth holiday, we\u2019re taking a closer look at the reparations movement<\/a> here in California. The state has been at the forefront of efforts to atone for state-inflicted harms from slavery to the present day. But some of that momentum stalled last year after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a handful of reparations-related bills.\u00a0 On Juneteenth holiday, fight for reparations continues in California<\/p>\n Nearly three years ago, California\u2019s Reparations Task Force released its final report<\/a>, a list of proposals to the legislature regarding reparations for African Americans.\u00a0Since then, some bills have passed and others have been vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/a><\/p>\n Kristin Nimmers, Policy and Campaign Manager for the California Black Power Network, said the fight continues. The Legislature is currently considering<\/a> the Truth in Disclosure Act<\/a>\u00a0(AB 2599). Introduced by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan and co-sponsored by the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation & Truth, the bill would compel major corporations doing business in California to examine their own history of \u201cill-gotten gains\u201d so the state can compile and publicly disclose the true story of how corporations profited from slavery.<\/p>\n \u201cThis policy is really seeking to improve public awareness and corporate accountability, while really continuing to build trust in the community,\u201d Nimmers said. \u201cWe already know that there are various corporations who have already started to research their own history and come out and talk about the ways that their businesses may have benefited from slavery. So there\u2019s really a question about what does that mean for how these corporations operate in the community? What is their role and responsibility in terms of repair and in terms acknowledging this harm?\u201d<\/p>\n Local Food Purchase Assistance program to get state funding in budget proposal<\/p>\n California lawmakers included one year of funding in the state budget proposal to keep alive a federal program many small farmers and food banks rely on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the morning\u2019s top stories on Friday, June 19, 2026 On this Juneteenth holiday, we\u2019re taking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-367544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCalifornia lawmakers included one year of funding in the state budget to keep alive a federal program many small farmers and food banks rely on. The Local Food Purchase Assistance Program helps food banks buy fresh food directly from local and underserved producers. But\u00a0 the program lost future federal funding earlier this year.<\/p>\n