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Aiyana Knowles, back left, Elizabeth Moran Sanchez, left, Priscilla Figueroa and Aisha Knowles of Russell City Reparative Justice Project Committee look at photo albums from Russell City in the living room of Figueroa’s house in Hayward, Calif., on Thursday, July 27, 2023. The RCRJP aims to outline recommendations for how to make amends for the destruction of a thriving Black and Latino community in the 1960s. Figueroa was active in her church in Russell City and was married there. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)Nearly 60 years after Russell City was annexed and ultimately razed, it has become the epicenter of the movement to provide reparations to Black communities in the Bay Area.
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