The Section 14 Survivors Group has formally asked the city of Palm Springs to give people evicted from the land in the 1960s — or their descendants — cash payments, land, new housing and scholarships.

More than 50 years after Palm Springs officials demolished and burned the homes of hundreds of Black and Latino residents in Section 14—a predominantly minority neighborhood once thriving within the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly described parts of what had changed in the latest counteroffer from the Section 14 Survivors group. A group of former ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors group held a summit Saturday, celebrating the one-year anniversary of reaching a historic $5.9 million settlement with the City of ...

The Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors and their descendants, led by attorney Areva Martin, announced that they have proposed a formal counteroffer of $42 million to the City of Palm Springs today.

Beginning around the 1940s, a neighborhood near downtown Palm Springs became home to mostly Black and Latino residents. The one-square-mile tract was on the land of the Cahuilla Indians and offered ...

Decades ago, the homes in a Palm Springs neighborhood known as Section 14 were deemed eyesores and officials wanted to promote tourism. So they forced out the mostly black and brown families who lived ...

The City Council is expected to vote on the settlement for residents of a neighborhood that burned more than 50 years ago. It could also consider another $21 million for community programs. By Audra D ...

Acknowledging its role in the destruction of a local Black and Latino neighborhood, the Palm Springs City Council promised Thursday to “right that wrong.” Council members did not specify what they ...

PALM SPRINGS — 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 ...