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By Elka Worner Since starting her restorative justice work last year, community activist Kavon Ward has fielded calls from Black families from around the…
by Mark McDermott A lot happened in 1961. John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space, the civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders took buses into the South to challenge segregation, and East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall. Something historic also happened in Manhattan Beach, although its significance wouldn’t be apparent until much later. Jan Dennis moved to town. She and her husband, Stan, moved down the coast from Santa Monica, bringing with them their kids and...
For one man and his family: Justice. For the country: But one step in a larger journey toward racial justice, too long deferred. Those were the reactions from Los Angeles Countyâs elected officials on Tuesday, April 20, in the wake of a Hennepin County jury finding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all three counts he faced â including murder â for killing George Floyd last year. Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 when Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. A crowd witnessed the killing. Smartphones captured it â and broadcast it acros...
Manhattan Beach City Council rejects apology regarding Bruce’s Beach SHARE by Mark McDermott Nearly three hours of public testimony had already occurred at Tuesday night’s Manhattan Beach City Council meeting before councilmembers took up the question of whether or not to issue an apology to the Bruce family and other Black families displaced by the City from their beachfront homes a century ago. Several more hours of testimony had been taken at the March 23 council meeting. For months, the issue had embroiled the community and captured national attention. In-depth stories on Bruce...
Bruce Beach Get The Facts: NO RESOLUTION is in the best interest of the City of Manhattan Beach. According to the slew of emails we have received over the last 2 weeks, turns out MB residents from both sides of the political aisle are in agreement - they don't like, nor do they want, the Bruce's Beach issue being used by the Far Left to extort restitution and push their ideology in our local Schools, city Government, police department or community. The Far Left does NOT represent mainstream Liberal Democrats, Conservative Republicans, or "No Party Preference" Americans, but the Far Left const...