Episodios

  • Episode 8: Making Things Right
    Oct 10 2021
    In the final installment of 'This Sand Is My Sand: The Stolen Legacy of Bruce's Beach,' Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation that will eventually return beachfront land taken from the Bruce family in the 1920s using eminent domain and the family talks about what it means for their future.
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    7 m
  • Episode 7: The Bruce Family Speaks
    Oct 10 2021
    Descendants of the Bruce family, including the great-great-great-grandson of Bruce's Beach founders Willa and Charles Bruce, talk about what their ancestors dealt with and what it's been like to see the fight for justice play out in a very public forum.
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    9 m
  • Episode 6: The Fight To Return The Land
    Oct 10 2021
    L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn discusses her fight to recognize what happened to the Bruce family and pushed the county to make things right.
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    8 m
  • Episode 5: Torn From The Land
    Oct 10 2021
    Bruce's Beach is just a single example of the injustices Black Americans faced over the years in land ownership. Dolores Barclay, adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, discusses the national history of the issue.
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    9 m
  • Episode 4: The Fight For Recognition
    Oct 10 2021
    Former Mayor of Manhattan Beach Mitch Ward and Allison Hales of the Bruce's Beach Task Force discuss the difficulties of trying to get appropriate and accurate recognition of the events that transpired at Bruce's Beach.
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    7 m
  • Episode 3: We Should Not Apologize
    Oct 10 2021
    Weeks of Manhattan Beach City Council meetings were filled with hundreds of public comments about Bruce's Beach and what the city should do to make things right. Councilwoman Suzanne Hadley was one of the most outspoken public officials against issuing an apology and explains why in this episode.
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    9 m
  • Episode 2: Sparking a Movement
    Oct 10 2021
    Kavon Ward, a poet/activist is considered the one who first lit the fire to spark the Bruce's Beach movement.
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    8 m
  • Episode 1: The History of Bruce's Beach
    Oct 10 2021
    We explore the history of Bruce's Beach and its founders Willa and Charles Bruce and what led up to the land being taken by the City of Manhattan Beach through eminent domain.
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    10 m