World leaders and delegates jetting into Egypt for the Cop27 climate conference will be able to dine out on £90 mushroom sauce covered beef medallions - and sip on fancy bottomless cocktails - while facing calls to cut down on meat consumption to save the planet.
The State of California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, has issued a 492-page interim report recommending the state pay reparations for slavery and for other acts of racial injustice, nationally and locally, over the last two centuries.
Some American churches have started setting aside money for slavery reparations after speaking up about various ways in which their churches profited from slavery in some capacity.
California’s reparations task force voted Tuesday to limit only Black Californians who have a direct lineage to enslaved ancestors will be eligible for the statewide reparation payments.