A House Divided: How a Band of Speculators Seized Deeds of Black-Owned Brooklyn Brownstones

A House Divided: How a Band of Speculators Seized Deeds of Black-Owned Brooklyn Brownstones

BY GEORGE JOSEPH AND SAMANTHA MALDONADO BY GEORGE JOSEPH AND SAMANTHA MALDONADO Four years ago, Deborah Thomas got a call from an unknown number. The stranger on the line introduced himself as Eddie Doran and informed her that he was a new co-owner or soon to be co-owner of her home — a two-story brownstone just blocks away from the upscale restaurants […]

Hail Women Everywhere Doing Everything

Hail Women Everywhere Doing Everything

I am proud to be a citizen of a country which has been in the forefront of not just agitating for better for women but advancing and elevating them. From the formation of the first political party, the Barbados Labour Party, (BLP), to this day, with a particular push as a result of the Tom […]

California Seized Land From a Black Family 98 Years Ago. Officials Just Voted to Return It.

Bruce's Beach was a thriving resort community for Black families when the state took the land under the guise of eminent domain in 1924. It will now return to the Bruce family.

California Seized Land From a Black Family 98 Years Ago. Officials Just Voted to Return It.

By Curtis Bunn, NBC News Ninety-eight years after California officials seized prime oceanfront land from a Black family that had built a thriving community there, a Los Angeles County commission voted Tuesday to return the property to the original owners’ family. The descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the land for $1,225 in […]