OUSD vowed reparations for Black students five years ago, but the promise remains unfulfilled

This story was first published in The Mercury News. When Pecolia Manigo’s eldest daughter lost out on a $20,000 scholarship after a breakdown over a grade dispute, Manigo heard more than one family’s frustration with a school system. She heard the harm she had spent years trying to prevent. As a co-chair of Oakland Unified School District’s original Black Thriving Task Force, Manigo had helped build an unprecedented framework aimed at repairing the harms Black parents and community leaders say…