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Shirley Weber
The first-in-the-country task force will spend two years addressing the harms of slavery and systemic racism.
She vacates her Assembly seat to be the new secretary of state, replacing Alex Padilla, who last week became the first Latino U.S. senator for California.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Gov. Gavin Newsom also appointed Shirley Weber to be secretary of state, set to be the first Black person in the role for California.