It's been almost 100 years since the city of Manhattan Beach, an ocean-side community outside of Los Angeles, seized Bruce's Beach from the Black couple who owned it. Historical documents proved ...

Manhattan Beach has formally apologized to the Bruces and other Black families who had their land taken from them in the 1920s by previous city leadership that, at the time, wanted to preserve the ...

Crucially, it also would "establish a process for providing compensation to the rightful owner," presumably making it easier to do what Ward did in Manhattan Beach with Bruce's Beach and in Santa ...

Willa and Charles Bruce ran a thriving resort for Black travelers at Bruce's Beach until the City of Manhattan Beach illegally seized the property through eminent domain in 1924, forcing them out ...

The Bruce family was given the deed last year, nearly a century after the property was taken by the city of Manhattan Beach. Willa and Charles Bruce bought two lots on the Strand between 26th ...

A bronze plaque located at Bruce's Beach Park in Manhattan Beach has been stolen by thieves as a string of similar crimes targeting valuable metals in public spaces. The plaque disappeared on ...

On Wednesday, Dean Logan, the county's registrar-recorder, presented a certified copy of the land transfer for the Manhattan Beach land — where the Bruces once ran a thriving resort for Black ...