Advancing Reparations
for Black Californians
ARRT's Reparations Principles
Impactful, Comprehensive, and Transformative
Reparations must fully address the scale of harm—delivering solutions that are meaningful, long-term, and rooted in justice.
Beyond Financial Compensation
Repair requires more than direct payments. It includes systemic change across housing, healthcare, education, and economic opportunity.
Confronting Ongoing Harm
The legacy of injustice is not confined to the past. Reparations must address the policies and systems that continue to shape inequity today.
Collective Responsibility, Collective Future
Reparations are a shared societal responsibility. Building a more just future requires collective understanding, investment, and action.
Strong Support in California
A May 2023 poll from UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies found strong support in California for a range of reparations measures for Black Americans, particularly those focused on systemic reforms and investments in communities.
Data shown sourced from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs “Black Policy Project”
- Multi-Racial
- Multi-Sector
- Alliance Advancing Reparations in California
- Multi-Racial
- Multi-Sector
- Alliance Advancing Reparations in California
- Multi-Racial
- Multi-Sector
- Alliance Advancing Reparations in California
Five Forms of Reparations
The United Nations defines five forms of repair: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of non-repetition.
Together, these approaches recognize a fundamental truth: repair must be comprehensive. It must address what was taken, what was lost, what continues to harm, and what must change to ensure it does not happen again.
Reparations are not just about the past—they are about transforming the conditions shaping our present and future.
Restitution
The goal is to return the victim to the state they were in before the violation occurred. This includes actions like the return of property, release from unlawful detention, or reinstatement of lost employment.
Compensation
The goal is to return the victim to the state they were in before the violation occurred. This includes actions like the return of property, release from unlawful detention, or reinstatement of lost employment.
Rehabilitation
The goal is to return the victim to the state they were in before the violation occurred. This includes actions like the return of property, release from unlawful detention, or reinstatement of lost employment.
Satisfaction
The goal is to return the victim to the state they were in before the violation occurred. This includes actions like the return of property, release from unlawful detention, or reinstatement of lost employment.
Guarantees of Non-Repetition
The goal is to return the victim to the state they were in before the violation occurred. This includes actions like the return of property, release from unlawful detention, or reinstatement of lost employment.
ARRT In The Media
The point of ARRT is really very basic and straightforward. One, to shepherd the ongoing work of implementing the recommendations
- Los Angeles Sentinel
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a reparations bill that would have established a process for compensating individuals whose property was
- The Observer
California’s governor signed a slate of bills today aimed at beginning the process of reparations for Black descendants of enslaved
- Cal Matters
