Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal apology for California’s role in slavery and legacy racism against Black people as part of a legislative package on Thursday. “The State of California accepts responsibility for the role we played in promoting,

The signing comes a month after lawmakers let a pair of bills die that would have created a state reparations agency and a fund for it to use.

Newsom also signed a handful of bills developed using recommendations from the state’s reparations task force.