administrative leave and the company says all staff will be retrained on proper child supervision. but martinez says, the damage is already done. it was the worst feeling to be seeing her through the glass. i don t want anyone else to go through this. reporter: megan fitzgerald, nbc news. and this black history month we ll take a look at the debate over land reparations. a growing number of states and local governments are looking at ways to return property that was taken from black families generations ago, but for many, it s not happening fast enough. aaron gilchrist reports. reporter: beneath the lush greenery of california s golden state park history is in dispute. this is where pioneers rushed to find gold including the family of jonathan. my great, great-grandfather was brought here as a slave. worked in the gold mines to pay for his freedom, he sent for his family. reporter: burgess says his ancestor
yacht all of burgess claims. burgess claims are not unique. just last year california returned land in manhattan beach to the bruce family. nearly 100 years after the city unfairly took the resort area citing imminent domain. other states are looking to compensate black families whose homes were taken to build interstates generations ago. last summer burgess took his story to the reparations task force, the first of its kind created in 2020 to investigate wrongs done to generations of black families. professor jovan lewis is a member. we ve gone through let s call it injury by injury looking at the various areas of society in which african americans have seen themselves, you know, put to disadvantage. reporter: this summer the task force will issue a report on the scope of the disparities black people in this state have faced for centuries. in another year, they ll make a recommendation on how california can atone. jonathan burgess isn t waiting for reparations policy. he wants h