PALM SPRINGS ... property values and prevented black families from accumulating wealth in their property over the past half century. More: Long ago, these trees were planted for racist reasons ...

Palm Springs has long been a retreat for ... Newens says the band of trees in the historically Black neighborhood became a political flashpoint when a white resident — and real estate agent — named ...

Yet those in Palm Springs have argued that trees at Tahquitz Creek were planted in the 1960s to specifically segregate a historically black neighborhood from the links. As an upshot, blocked views ...

While there are lots of palm tree species in California, they aren’t all originally from the area. Many were brought from different places around the world. That’s what I found out from my ...