LA County returns land to Black family 90-plus years after Manhattan Beach took it

The nation’s first tangible act of reparations is complete — pending escrow.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday, June 28, to return two parcels of oceanfront property to the Bruce family, more than 90 years after Manhattan Beach used eminent domain, for racially motivated reasons, to take the property away from their ancestors.
The vote marks the culmination of more than a year of legislative maneuvering to return the land to the Bruce family.
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