W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the beginning of the 20th century, addresses San Francisco's Third Baptist Church in 1958. (Photo courtesy of African American Historical and Cultural Society, San Francisco)

Leaders of San Francisco’s African American community are calling on the city’s Board of Supervisors to use the income from hotel and marijuana taxes to fund reparations.

According to the NAACP San Francisco branch, the reparations would be used to make amends for the city’s historic injustices against its black residents.

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