California reparations: How do you put a price on racism?
The state of California is considering giving the descendants of slaves $1.2m each.
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The state of California is considering giving the descendants of slaves $1.2m each.
Palms Springs officials have apologized for the city's role in what one state official called a “city-engineered holocaust” in an area called Section 14.
Palm Springs’ city council is reckoning with those actions, voting in 2021 to issue a formal apology to former residents for the city’s role in displacing them in the 1960s from the neighborhood that many Black and Mexican American families called home.
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the city evicted the mostly Black and Latino working-class residents of Section 14 and destroyed their homes. Now, survivors and their descendants seek reparations.