The State of California has empaneled a 9-member committee of experts to consider the impacts of slavery and study and make recommendations about Reparations to descendants of people who were slaves. Jackie Botts is a journalist with CalMatters and published a story entitled California reparations committee confronts harms of slavery, debates direct payments that appeared in the Desert Sun.

She talks with John McMullen in this podcast about the objective of the reparations committee, who it comprises, the difficult questions they must answer, the process over the next couple of years, what transpired at the first meeting, and some of the Golden State's atrocious, egregious history towards African Americans.