A California City Set Black and Latino Residents Homes on Fire 60 Years Ago to Build an ‘Exotic Playground’ for the Rich. Now They Want Up to $2B In Reparations.
Black and Latino survivors and descendants of California residents burned out of their homes in the 1960s are demanding up to billions of dollars in direct payments from the city that displaced them. Pearl Devers said the parcel of land her father built their home on in downtown Palm Springs in the 1950s when she…