The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will consider a nearly $6 million reparations settlement for former residents of a neighborhood of mostly Black and Latino families that was destroyed more than a half-century ago.

The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a reparations settlement for former residents of a mostly Black and Latino neighborhood destroyed for commercial development in the 1960s.

The Palm Springs city council agreed on a $5.9 million reparations settlement for former residents of the Section 14 neighborhood, who lost their homes in the 1960s due to commercial development. This move is symbolic,