Santa Monica Reckons with its Dark Past

EP McKnight, MEd
5 min readFeb 16, 2022

How Black families were displaced by the 10 Freeway, Urban Renewal, and redlining?

Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash

Wow!! Manhattan Beach finally stepped up to the plate and gave Bruce’s Beach, which was taken from the Bruces, an African American couple, back to their descendants. It was a lengthy process but it finally happened last year due to the effort of the grassroot organizations and some city officials.

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EP McKnight, MEd

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