The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to create a roughly $1 million “redress fund” to bring some amount ...

FORMER RESIDENTS OF RUSSELL CITY, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline, could soon receive payments for being run out of their homes in the 1960s thanks to a ...

The $900,000 fund would go to living former residents of Russell City, a Black and Latino community that was bulldozed for an ...

The city of Hayward and the offices of two Alameda County supervisors have set aside nearly $1 million for a Redress Fund for ...

On Thursday, there was a major update in the push for reparations for hundreds of families who had their land taken from them ...

Because Russell City was unincorporated, it became a haven for Black and Latino families who had difficulty buying property in other parts of the Bay Area due to racist real estate policies like ...

Russell City was named in the mid-19th century for a teacher who came to California during the Gold Rush. Initially, Danish immigrants lived there. By World War II, ...

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.

"Russell City, Los Angeles, Oakland, Richmond are the major cities that created the sound that became known as 'West Coast blues,'" he said. In Alameda County, after World War II, Russell City was ...

Back in 1958, with tears in her eyes, Big Mama Thorton complained that she was only being paid $15 a night to perform in Russell City, while “down the street in Oakland, that white boy who plays ...

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 ...