Nine commissioners are set to meet next week to begin an 18-month study examining potential reparations for the descendants of enslaved people, focusing on New York’s involvement in the slave trade and its long-term impacts.
The state’s Community Commission on Reparations Remedies will convene on July 30 at the state Capitol in Albany. This first meeting will lay out the group’s plan, which will extend over the next year and a half, culminating in a final report to be presented to the Legislature by the end of 2025.
