Seized and destroyed last century thanks in part to actions by former members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the current supervisors apologized last week to previous residents and descendants of Russell City, a community established in 1853 near the Hayward shoreline.

Board of Supervisors president Nate Miley brought the apology forward in a resolution along with new Supervisor Elisa Marquez, who replaced the late Richard Valle. The board passed the resolution unanimously.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.