The NAACP is urging California lawmakers to pass two reparations bills that have reportedly stalled in the legislature.

According to The Observer, Senate Bills 518 and 437, which aim to implement recommendations made by California’s Reparations Task Force, have been placed on the Assembly Appropriations Committee’s “suspense file,” a holding place for bills with significant fiscal impact.

The California-Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP is raising concerns about these bills, both authored by Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson (D-San Diego) and backed by the California Legislative Black Caucus, being delayed following their placement on the suspense file.

“For generations, Black Californians have carried the weight of systemic harm with no redress,” Rick L. Callender, president of the NAACP Ca

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