{"id":297163,"date":"2026-07-15T23:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:43:16","slug":"michaelle-solages-discusses-n-y-reparations-report-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297163\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaelle Solages discusses N.Y. reparations report delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within this year\u2019s enacted budget, there is a provision that delays until 2029 a report from a state commission to study reparations for slavery in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind reparations is that the legacy of discrimination against Black people in the United States continues to have substantial impacts today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A separate report, out from the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Legal Defense Fund\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyclu.org\/report\/the-other-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released this week,<\/a> shows that the median wealth of Black New Yorkers is nearly 15 times less than the median wealth of white New Yorkers. And there\u2019s much more.<\/p>\n<p>State Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, chair of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, discussed the idea with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information on the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny.gov\/programs\/new-york-state-community-commission-reparations-remedies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within this year\u2019s enacted budget, there is a provision that delays until 2029 a report from a state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,3476,201,27,200],"class_list":["post-297163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-capital-tonight","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-state-assembly","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}