reignited calls to dismantle structural and institutional racism and to return what s owed to black america. justice for bruce s beach! reporter: for kavon, it took a little more than a year to successful press l.a. county and the state of california to make amends for its role in stripping wealth from the bruce family. two plots of the land that are now worth more than $75 million are on their way back to being owned by charles and willa s descendants. including their great great grandson anthony bruce. when you see something with your name on it, it s a little bit different, you know, to know that this is bruce property, you know, and i m a bruce, and this is from my family. we started that down there. nobody else around here did that. it was my family. reporter: kavon is now launching where is my land, a digital platform to help other families find justice with co-founder ashanti martin. the cases where the land
what the bruce family is in a position to do now is what generations and generations of black families have not been able to do, get their hands back on their property. so many people, black folks, have been stripped of land. as the bruce descendant said, of wealth. a new generation is rising up. where the bruces toiled in the silence and quiet, a new generation of advocates have stepped up, raising their voices and also their stories like the bruces. i spent some time talking to folks. let s take a listen. july 2020, manhattan beach resident kavon ward mobilized after learning the dark past of the sunny beach side park now known as bruce s beach. parcels that have land were once owned by charles and willa bruce, a black couple who bought the land to build a beach resort on the site in 1912. it quickly became a haven for black tourists and entertainers from across the country. it also became a target of white