enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. i m here for my mother. his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. did you see that abuse? i did. jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this video tape interview shows henry calling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown out her a lot. now in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the back seat of a car watching his mother suffer. my mom was driving in my dad just hitting her with the
california lawmakers unanimously voted to return bruce s beach to the descendants of a black couple almost 100 years after the land was seized through em nant domain. not only was the land seized but those black americans were also driven out by the kkk. nbc s tremaine lee reports. reporter: in july 2020 manhattan beach resident ward mobilized after learning the dark past of the sunny beachside park now known as bruce s beach. parcelled of the land once owned by charles and willa loose. it quickly became a haven for black tourists and entertainers
but a new generation of activists are lyfting their voices and the bruce s story. let s take a listen. in july of 2020 manhattan beach resident mr. ward mobilized after learning the dark past of the sunny beach side park known as bruce s peach. parcels were once owned by a black couple who brought the land to build a beach resort in 1912. it quickly became a haven for black tourists and entertainers from across the country. it also became a target of white supremacists who along with manhattan beach officials seized the land through imminent domain on the grounds that it be used for a public park. but for three decades, the lot set vacant. i don t care if it happens to black entrepreneurs, white entrepreneurs. someone having their land taken from them is wrong. and unjustly is wrong.
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