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Alameda County supes approve fund for wrongfully evicted Russell City residents
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to create a roughly $1 million “redress fund” to bring some amount ...
Alameda County leaders to vote on redress for Russell City
The city of Hayward and the offices of two Alameda County supervisors have set aside nearly $1 million for a Redress Fund for ...
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Fund proposed to provide payments to wrongfully evicted Russell City residents
FORMER RESIDENTS OF RUSSELL CITY, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline, could soon ...
Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fund
The $900,000 fund would go to living former residents of Russell City, a Black and Latino community that was bulldozed for an ...
Hayward, Alameda Co. create 'Russell City Redress Fund' to compensate families for land seizure
On Thursday, there was a major update in the push for reparations for hundreds of families who had their land taken from them ...
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Alameda County apologizes for role in destruction of Russell City
Russell City (also known as Russell) in an undated photo was an unincorporated community in Alameda County, Calif., about 10 miles (16 km) south of Oakland in present-day Hayward.
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Alameda County supervisors apologize over destruction of Russell City
Russell City, a predominantly Black and Latino community in Alameda County, was declared a blight by county officials in the 1950s. Its last residents were forced out in 1966 after the ...
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Another budget in books in Russell
Jun. 14—RUSSELL — The Russell City Council put another budget in the books this week after two special meetings. On Wednesday — in a possible record-breaking 10-minute session — the ...