Plan would return prime beachfront property to descendants of original Black owners
April 10, 2021
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- Los Angeles County plans to return prime beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a seaside resort for African Americans but suffered racist harassment and were stripped of it by local city leaders a century ago, a county official said Friday.
"It is the county's intention to return this property," Janice Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, told a news conference at what was known as Bruce's Beach in the city of Manhattan Beach.
The decision in Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, comes at a time of national reckoning on race and discussions at the local, state and federal levels over reparations.