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California's reparations task force will present its final recommendations on Thursday at an opening hearing in Sacramento. The task force, created in 2020, could recommend a variety of measures such as financial payments, educational opportunities, and land grants. The task force is also considering how the state can formally apologize for its role in perpetuating racism.

The recommendations of the task force will then be sent to the state legislature, which will decide whether to implement them. If the legislature does approve reparations, California would be the first state in the nation to do so.

However, California is not the only state considering reparations for Black people. Other states, including New York, Florida, and Maryland have established task forces to study the issue.

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The Supreme Court is set to hand down key decisions this morning. They could address student debt relief, affirmative action, and federal election laws. They include a case over First Amendment rights versus LGBTQ rights out of Colorado, where a web designer argues a state law requiring her to serve LGBTQ customers violates her religious beliefs.

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Philadelphia has become the latest city to announce the creation of a reparations task force to examine if the descendants of enslaved Africans will receive compensation for the ongoing effects of slavery, reports The Philadelphia Tribune.

After several consultations with the Philadelphia chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, council members introduced the measure in early June.

By approving the measure, Philadelphia joins other cities like Detroit and Chicago, and states such as California and New Jersey, which have similar commissions to explore what kind of economic considerations could be given to descendants of enslaved Africans.

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2022, 77% of African Americans support reparations in comparison to 18% of white Americans.

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President Biden says the U.S. and its allies played no role in the recent mercenary rebellion in Russia.

"We gave Putin no excuse to blame this on the West or to blame this on NATO," President Biden said while speaking from the White House.

The president called it a struggle within the Russian system. He said officials would continue to assess the situation, but it was too early to reach any conclusions about what was taking place.

The head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched an armed rebellion against Russia over the weekend, directing his army to retreat from the front lines of Ukraine and march toward Moscow.

Prigozhin reversed course, however, striking a deal to take his soldiers to Belarus, which said it would grant them amnesty.

Biden said whatever the outcome in Russia, the U.S. and its allies will remain aligned.

"No matter what comes next, I will keep making sure that our allies and our partners are closely aligned in how we are reading and responding to the situation."

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Oscar-winner Olivia Colman finally gets to play a superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe in "Secret Invasion," a new Disney mini-series. She joins Samuel L. Jackson in this latest series, playing the character Sonya Falsworth, a high-ranking M-16 agent. Think of her as Britain's Nick Fury, only a bit more brutal.

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According to the lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of Georgia on behalf of the students, a Black high school student identified by his initials N.T. alleges that an athletic director defended white students' use of racial epithets “because Black students used racial language when talking to each other.”

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In a significant development, the Supreme Court has unfrozen a Louisiana case that could lead to the redrawing of congressional districts and empowered Black voters. The ruling follows the recent rejection of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama, emphasizing the ongoing struggle to protect the voting power of marginalized communities.

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President Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York to talk with the families that lost their loved ones due to the massacre that took place over the weekend. The shooter said he committed the violent act because he felt like whites were being replaced by minorities. AURN's Ebony McMorris spoke with leading intellectual scholar and author Dr. Cornel West about his reaction to the tragedy.

"I thought of the last speech of the great Malcolm X in Rochester, New York, February 16th, 1965. When he said that Black people are not just victims of a racist order, but Black people are prisoners of war. There's been a war going on for 400 years, from slave ship to slave auction to plantation to lynching tree to mass incarceration," said West.

"And so in that sense, I wasn't surprised. You know, I mean, as a Christian, I'm never surprised by evil. I'm never paralyzed by despair. I have to fortify myself. I got to get ready and put on my armor. And so we get another manifestation of this war that's been going on. It's psychic war, it's spiritual war, it's social wars, economic war, and it's physical war. It could be Emanuel Church. It could be Buffalo, New York. It goes on and on and on."

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