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California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) received good news with the recent release of the 2021 California state budget. The $262.2 billion package, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in early July, includes $60 million earmarked for a trio of CSUDH campus infrastructure projects, and $1 million for the campus’ Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute.

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In the early 1900s, Willa and Charles Bruce were among a wave of Black Americans who had migrated to California from across the country. The entrepreneurs owned two plots of oceanfront property in what is now the Los Angeles suburb of Manhattan Beach, where they opened a resort known as "Bruce's Beach." It was among the first oceanfront properties that was owned by and serviced Black residents.

Los Angeles County will officially work to give the portion of Bruce’s Beach it controls to the descendants of the original owners.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously during a Tuesday, April 20, meeting to create a plan to transfer two parcels of coastal property in Manhattan Beach to the Bruce family, whose ancestors once owned a seaside resort for African Americans there but had the land taken away via eminent domain — costing them an opportunity to build generational wealth.