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Race, reparations and Bruce’s Beach: What you need to know about the story

Plaque at Bruce's Beach
Randall Roberson of Los Angeles takes a picture of a plaque Thursday night in Manhattan Beach. Earlier in the day, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill authorizing the return of ocean-front property to the Bruce family, whose ancestors were forced off their land.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
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In a history making vote, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an unprecedented plan to return Bruce’s Beach to a Black family that had been run out of Manhattan Beach almost a century ago — paving the way for more efforts by the government to rectify historic injustices that were racially motivated.

Catch up on The Times’ coverage of the issue.

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