Gavin Newsom signs bill to return seized beachfront land to Black couple's descendants
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill on Thursday that will allow Los Angeles County to return beachfront land seized from two former Black owners in the 1920s to their descendants.
"As governor of California, let me do what apparently Manhattan Beach is unwilling to do, and I want to apologize to the Bruce family for the injustice that was done to them a century ago,'' the governor said on the land in Manhattan Beach, according to The Associated Press. "I say that as a proud Californian, but also mindful that we always haven't had a proud past."
Newsom said the move could be "catalytic," allowing land to be returned to others who lost it through racism.
Willa and Charles Bruce's great-great-grandson and other descendants joined Newsom at the signing.