Newsom authorizes Bruce’s Beach property to be returned to descendants of Black owners

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Sep. 30, 2021 Newsom authorizes Bruce's Beach property to be returned to descendants of Black owners In a history-making move celebrated by reparations advocates and social justice leaders across California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has authorized the return of the property known as Bruce's Beach to the descendants of a Black couple that had been run out of Manhattan Beach almost a century ago. Senate Bill 796, signed into law Thursday by Newsom, confirms that the city's taking of this shorefront land - on which Willa and Charles Bruce ran a thriving resort for Black beachgoers - was racially motivated and done under false and unlawful pretenses. Read more

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