Even as historians pointed out facts over the years, residents and elected officials ignored them. The story of what happened to the Bruces and the other Black families has always been known in Manhattan Beach but rarely talked about, like an open secret. And yes, the city has crashed and burned more than a few times. I can apologize on my own, and so right now, I do."īut - to extend Napolitano's race car analogy a little further - getting to this place that feels like a finish line in the decades-long saga over Bruce's Beach has been one hell of a bumpy ride. An apology is an admission of guilt and apology will mean lawsuits.' Nonsense. The mayor even did what the rest of the Manhattan Beach City Council has stubbornly refused to do.
A long-planned ceremony to dedicate a new plaque - one that describes the many injustices done to Willa and Charles Bruce and several other Black families that, a century ago, owned the beachfront land and ran businesses on it - went surprisingly well. from Harvard Law School, an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Yale College in Literature and American Studies.He did neither on Saturday morning. in American Studies from Harvard University, a J.D. She is a multi-talented, interdisciplinary scholar who earned a Ph.D. And her book Breathe: A Letter to My Sons was a finalist for the 2020 Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (University of North Carolina Press 2018) was a winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction.
Raised by activist parents, Perry is an a multi-time award winning author of 6 books including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon Press 2018), which received the The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction among other honors.
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