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The Palm Springs City Council has unanimously approved a $5.9-million settlement with the Black and Latino families whose homes were razed and burned in a brutal urban renewal project in the 1950s ...
(Reuters) -The Palm Springs city council on Thursday unanimously approved a $5.9 million reparations settlement with former residents of a largely Black neighborhood that was leveled in the 1960s ...
A play about the burning and bulldozing of homes on Indigenous land in Palm Springs dramatizes the lives of those who found sanctuary there.
This story and headline have been corrected to say that the settlement agreement was for $5.9 million, not $27 million. The Palm Springs City Council will also vote on another $21 million that would largely go to housing programs. ___ Austin is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.
Former residents and their descendants say the city of Palm Springs owes them up to $2 billion in damages for the forcible removal in the 1950s and '60s of cooks, chauffeurs and builders who ...
Keith Eric Mitchell was born on January 13, 1970, [4] in Palm Springs, California, the son of Leslie Diane Coogan Mitchell, a realtor.He changed his name to "Keith Coogan" in 1986, two years after the death of his grandfather, Jackie Coogan.
In an emotional meeting, the Palm Springs City Council heard public comments about the city's consideration of reparations for those evicted from Section 14.
A budget deal between Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats that set aside a measly $12 million for “reparations, a system of redress for the descendants of former slaves in California,” was ...