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Task Force Chair Kamilah Moore listens to public comment during a meeting by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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California reparations task force dives into what is owed
By SOPHIE AUSTIN AND JANIE HAR - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,12/14/22-12:00AM , 95 Reads
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After more than a year delving into history and studies to make its case for reparations to California descendants of enslaved Black people, a first-in-the-nation task force began deliberations Wednesday to quantify how financial compensation might be calculated and what might be required to prove eligibility.
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The execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary is pictured on Nov. 18, 2011, in Salem, Ore. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, she is commuting the sentences of the 17 prison inmates in Oregon who have been sentenced to death to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state's death sentences
Tue,12/13/22-6:44PM , 85 Reads
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state's 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Today in History: December 23, Japanese war leaders executed
Mon,12/12/22-5:10AM , 139 Reads
Today in History

Today is Friday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2022. There are eight days left in the year.

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Lamar Johnson takes a seat in court at the start of his wrongful conviction hearing in St. Louis on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, Pool)

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Missouri man seeks exoneration in murder; 2 others confessed
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Mon,12/12/22-12:00AM , 229 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor's office told a judge Monday.
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