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'Have Our Land Returned': One Black Family Claims California Took Their Land for a State Park 75 Years Ago, Now They're Fighting to Get It Back.

Rufus Burgess arrived in California in the late 1840s and built a fortune during the Gold Rush. Having once been enslaved, Burgess was a freeman. On his

Why all Black people might not get reparations in California

Brothers want California to return land owned by their ancestors. But a task force's debate over eligibility for reparations is complicating matters.

How one group fights to reclaim Black land and battle the economic divide

In 2021, Kavon Ward and Ashanti Ward created Where Is My Land. The organization started after Ward's success in reclaiming Bruce's Beach and they have just begun.

How one group fights to reclaim Black land and battle the economic divide

Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images(NEW YORK) In 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce bought land southwest of Los Angeles in Manhattan Beach to turn into a resort for African Americans to relax and unwind. They named it Bruce's Beach. But nearby white property owners opposed Bruce's Beach. In 1924, the Manhattan Beach City Council voted to condemn Bruce's Beach and prohibited similar businesses in the area, with the city eventually using eminent domain to take the land and demolish the resort. Former public policy lobbyist Kavon Ward started Justice for Bruce's Beach on Juneteenth in 2020. The following year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to return the land to the descendants of the Bruces. "We use advocacy, research and technology ART to try to reclaim stolen Black land and/or restitution for the families who have been the victims of land pillage," Ward told ABC News' Good Morning America. Vete

Black families want land returned, say it was stolen from ancestors