NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Santa Monica City Councilmember Kristin McCowan on the impact the city's "Right to Return" program could have on families displaced for development decades ago.
Spotlight: The Los Angeles County Public Library will host a virtual program on Bruce’s Beach from 5:30-7 p.m. on Jan. 19. According to an event notice…
Santa Monica is pushing a program among the first of its kind to offer affordable housing to families and their descendants who were displaced by the construction of Interstate 10.
In the early 1900s, Charles and Willa Bruce opened Bruce's Beach, a beachfront resort Black Americans could enjoy. Despite a campaign of targeted harassment and violence, they thrived. Ultimately, eminent domain would force them out. It would be almost 100 years before the family saw justice.