And a year after California became the first state in the country to establish a reparations task force – an effort propelled by Secretary of State Shirley Weber – panel members have started to wrestle more earnestly with two fundamental questions: What might compensation look like? Last Tuesday, voters in Detroit gave the green light for Detroit City Council to develop a task force that can “make recommendations for housing and economic development programs that address historical discrimination against the Black community in Detroit,” as the ballot question put it. “I don’t consider that (returning Bruce’s Beach) to be an act of reparation,” said the Duke University economics professor William A. Darity Jr., a reparations expert who also provides support services to the task force.