This is a word of podcasts from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. After decades,

Bruce's beach in California was returned to a black family that had been robbed of their land.

There are thousands of stories of this kind of theft where landowners and descendants

are still waiting for justice.

There have been tons of examples of urban properties, rural properties, oceanfront properties,

taken.

African American property rights and reparations coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

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Welcome to a work of podcasts about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host,

Jason Johnson. Bruce's beach, a stretch of oceanfront land that

had been in a way since African Americans in the early 1900s was snatched from owners Willa and

Charles Bruce by California officials in 1924. Even though the property featured a thriving resort,

the city of Manhattan Beach seized the property by imminent domain after races,

including the Ku Klux Klan, targeted the black family that owned it,

setting fires and threatening the owners and visitors with violence.

But now, after nearly a century, the land is back in the hands of the Bruce family.

Right now, just the return of the land is the start. That's just the beginning. This is the

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