In what many are calling the ultimate example of how reparations can and should work in America, the state of California has moved to return a popular beachfront property in the city of Manhattan Beach to descendants of the Black couple it was originally stolen from more than a century…
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California Takes Steps Toward Returning Beachfront Property Taken From Black Family in 1924; Now Worth Estimated $75 Million
Nearly 100 years ago, Charles and Willa Bruce owned a popular beach resort situated along California’s scenic Manhattan Beach. But after years of harassment from white neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan, plus strict racial segregation laws, the city decided to “reclaim” the property through eminent domain laws, paying the…