The Palm Springs city council voted to approve $5.9 million in reparations for families forcibly removed from their homes.

The Palm Springs City Council has approved a $5.9 million deal to pay Black and Latino families who were displaced from a neighborhood in the 1960s. The unanimous vote Thursday

The Palm Springs City Council has approved a $5.9-million settlement with Black and Latino families whose homes were torn down decades 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.

Black and Latino families who were displaced from a Southern California neighborhood in the 1960s have reached a tentative settlement agreement with the city of Palm Springs.

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.

The city of Palm Springs, Calif., will pay nearly $6 million in reparations to Black and Brown families who were displaced from a neighborhood there during the 1960s.  The tentative settlement

The money was approved to compensate Black and Latino families who were displaced from a neighborhood in the 1960s and decades later led a fight for restitution.

The Palm Springs City Council will vote tonight on the settlement offer. It comes decades after city employees and the Fire Department destroyed an estimated 197 homes on tribal land downtown.

The settlement follows years of legal action over the forced removal of Section 14 residents and their destroyed homes, marking a historic step toward justice.