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LA County supervisors to vote on returning Bruce's Beach to owners' descendants By CNS Author article MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to vote Tuesday on whether to return a scenic and valuable parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who once operated a beach resort there -- before the city condemned and seized the site to force them out of business. LA County supervisors to vote on returning Bruce’s Beach to owners’ descendants Acting on a motion by Supervisor Janice Hahn, the board will take two votes: one to dire...

Willa and Charles Bruce turned the property into a flourishing resort, but it quickly became a target of the area's white populace, leading to acts of...

But for some other local news outlets, a hibernation period was simply not possible. Despite the urgent need for local news outlets to provide relevant information to residents about COVID-19, more than 60 local newsrooms have shuttered since the start of the pandemic, according to the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism think-tank. Like Easy Reader, newsrooms that did manage to stay afloat often did so through deep staffing cuts. A record 16,160 jobs were cut across broadcast, digital and print news, according to a study by the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. “...

• Everyone danced as best they could around COVID-19, but the wretched 2020 college football season is mercifully wrapping up. And the University of Oregon — the only Pac-12 school that refused to give the number of COVID positives in its athletic department to The New York Times — finds itself in the middle of a virus-driven mess that the Pac-12 Conference has become. The Ducks did not win the North Division title. That belongs to the University of Washington by virtue of a higher winning percentage. Yet the Ducks will play for the Pac-12 championship on Dec. 18 because Washington pu...