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UpdatedFri, Feb 26, 2021 at 5:58 pm PT Replies(51) The City of Manhattan Beach City Council appointed a task force in 2020 to deal with the history of Bruce's Beach, now a city park & part of land seized by the city's use of eminent domain in the 1920s to oust a Black couple & their oceanfront resort. (Liz Spear | Manhattan Beach Patch) MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — A member of the Manhattan Beach Bruce's Beach Task Force has released a statement regarding the task force. Allison Hales, a Manhattan Beach resident who was the first resident selected by the Manhattan Beach City Council to serve on th...

A new South Bay action group, Anti-Racist Moms (ARMs), hosts a Junteenth picnic at Bruce’s Beach to symbolically reclaim the space that was taken away from its black owners in the 1920s in Manhattan Beach on Friday, June 19, 2020. Bruce’s Beach was one of the only places in LA County where African Americans could access the beach. It was taken over by the city of Manhattan Beach in later years and annexed as a city park. Then, decades later, in 2007, the city finally rededicated it and returned its name. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) 00034646A