What’s happening? Los Angeles County is trying to figure out how to handle the purposeful ousting of a successful entrepreneurial Black couple whose land was taken away by the City of Manhattan Beach via eminent domain in the 1920s under the ruse of saying the city needed a park.
Why is this important? These acts epitomize the new world, the new economy where doing the right thing matters.
How will this be important? More and more local governments and states are trying to rectify past wrongs. So to are stadiums that displaced primarily black residents.
The Patch | LA County Could Return Manhattan Beach Land to Bruce Descendants