The return of a Manhattan Beach property to a Black family was seen as a reparations model. Then the family sold it back to Los Angeles County. By Soumya Karlamangla Duane Shepard, a descendant of the ...

What is the history of Bruce's Beach? In 1912 and 1920, Willa Bruce bought land along the shore in the city of Manhattan Beach. Shortly after purchasing the lots, Willa and her husband Charles Bruce ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A bronze plaque at a historic Manhattan ...

Get a closer look at the history of Bruce’s Beach through an exhibit at the California African American Museum at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Historian Alison Rose Jefferson, author of the book ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a local government in Southern California took Bruce's Beach away from its Black owners because of the color of their skin. The owners' descendants won a long effort to regain ...

Kavon Ward vividly remembers the sunny day in September of 2021 when she won. When Black people won. Gov. Gavin Newsom had traveled to the overwhelmingly white city of Manhattan Beach to sign ...

The bronze plaque was installed last February to acknowledge the grim history of a Southern California beach city that ran a Black family out of town, shattering their haven for Black beachgoers. Now ...

The recent rain clouds departed just in time for the sun to shine on a new monument that was unveiled in Manhattan Beach this weekend. Manhattan Beach cut the ribbon on its new plaque at Bruce’s Beach ...