San Francisco set to approve reparations task force FacebookTwitterEmail S.F. Supervisor Shamann Walton announced legislation early last year calling for reparations for Black people.Nick Otto / Special to The Chronicle 2020 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is slated to approve a 15-member African American Reparations Advisory Committee on Tuesday, which would make the city the first of its size to take such a concrete step to explore what reparations could look like for its Black residents. Over the next two years, the committee plans to explore possible financial compensation and other recommendations for the descendants of enslaved people. It would examine how slavery, segregation, redlining, predatory financial practices, and other social and political ills contributed to the mistreatment and subsequent wealth gap and other disparities affecting Black people in the city.