Bruce's Beach to be returned to Black family 100 years after city 'used the law to steal it'

California governor apologizes for city's seizure of first west coast resort for Black people, which almost certainly would have made heirs millionaires A beachfront property seized from a Black family in southern California nearly a century ago will be returned to the family's descendants, in a move hailed as a milestone in the fight for reparations and the return of lands stolen from people of color. In 1912 Willa and Charles Bruce bought land in Manhattan Beach, a Los Angeles seaside suburb, ...