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CARIN DORGHALLI, BBC NEWS
01 Jul, 23

California reparations: How do you put a price on racism?

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Photo courtesy of the Chaparral/Cindy Chavez. Loyola Marymount University professor Dr. Cheryl Grills spoke during the community meeting on Feb. 24 at the United Methodist Church in Palm Springs.
10 May, 23

Reparations in all aspects: Section 14 survivors reminisce with goals for the future

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26 Apr, 23

Black Families Were Forced Out Of Now-Affluent Palm Springs. Their Descendants Are Demanding Over $2 Billion In Reparations

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One of the many house fires in Section 14 that survivors say drove as many as 2,000 families out, robbing them of political power and generational wealth. (City of Palm Springs)
24 Apr, 23

A reckoning in Palm Springs decades after a ‘city-engineered holocaust’

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Pearl Taylor Devers, the chairperson for the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors group, right, is hugged by another member at the United Methodist Church in Palm Springs, Calif., Sunday, April 16, 2023. Black and Latino Californians who were displaced from their Section 14 neighborhood in Palm Springs allege the city pushed them out by hiring contractors to destroy homes in an area that was tight-knit and full of diversity. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
18 Apr, 23

Families displaced from California neighborhood seek $2B

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Palm Springs Section 14 survivors and descendants listen to Areva Martin, civil rights attorney, at the United Methodist Church in Palm Springs, Calif., Sunday, April 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
16 Apr, 23

Families displaced from Palm Springs neighborhood seek $2B

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19 Mar, 23

BLACK AND MEXICAN AMERICANS DISPLACED FROM PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, NEIGHBORHOOD SEEKING REPARATIONS

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06 Mar, 23

Rev. Michael Nabors: A weekend in review – Palm Springs and Evanston

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Some homes were burned by the city during the effort to clear Section 14. Photo courtesy of the Palm Springs Historical Society
17 Jan, 23

Civic Solutions: The Section 14 Survivors Group Plans to Do More Public Outreach in 2023

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Alvin Taylor in front of the Section 14 lot of land where his childhood home used to be in Palm Springs, California. Photograph: Taya Gray/The Desert Sun/USA TODAY NETWORK
15 Jan, 23

‘Disregarded as human beings’: survivors of Palm Springs demolition demand justice 60 years on

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01 Jan, 23

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30 Nov, 22

Hundreds of Black and Mexican Families File Racial Reparations Claim Against City of Palms Springs

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An undated file photo of residential structures on a parcel of land in downtown Palm Springs called Section 14. Last year, the city apologized for the razing and fires of homes that displaced at least 1,000 domestics, chauffeurs, builders and other workers in the 1950s and 1960s.(USC Library of Special Collections)
30 Nov, 22

Black and Latino residents burned out of Palm Springs seek city reparations

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29 Nov, 22

Section 14 survivors seek millions in compensation from city of Palm Springs

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Attorneys representing evicted families held a news conference in Los Angeles to announce the damages claim. Hundreds of Black and Mexican families will file claims Tuesday seeking millions of dollars in restitution from the city of Palm Springs for being forcibly evicted from the downtown Section 14 neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image courtesy of NBC Palm Springs)
29 Nov, 22

Black, Mexican families seek restitution for Palm Springs evictions, call them ‘shameful secret’

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Palm Springs is grappling with the legacy of a 1960s “holocaust” in which Black residents were evicted and their homes and belongings destroyed.(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
17 Nov, 22

Editorial: Palm Springs bulldozed a Black neighborhood. Compensate survivors

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17 Sep, 22

SECTION 14 COMMUNITY REUNITES AFTER 60 YEARS

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17 Nov, 21

Palm Springs to discuss reparations for evicting minority residents from Section 14

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29 Sep, 21

Palm Springs to apologize for Section 14 destruction; moves forward with process to remove

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