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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bill Whalen, policy fellow, Hoover Institution\"]‘Oodles of progressive legislation and oodles of [virtue] signaling.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also made it illegal to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-california-recall-texas-business-laws-6e99a292c386f6b7b0062057601b6f52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">film someone\u003c/a> near an abortion clinic for the purpose of intimidation, banned \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-california-laws-race-and-ethnicity-ad02312ad0ca6d41c2403f08f72b0989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secret employment settlements\u003c/a> involving harassment or discrimination and limited the use of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/police-george-floyd-california-laws-legislature-31e6b71bcb93138f850677edea7519b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rubber bullets\u003c/a> by police during protests. He even prohibited restaurants from handing out \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ketchup packets\u003c/a> and other disposable condiments unless customers ask for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among the deepest blue states in the country — Democrats control all statewide offices and have supermajorities in the Legislature, which some say acts as a laboratory for liberal policies that would not get to a vote in many other states. The governor wields immense power over what becomes law because California lawmakers rarely override vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this had been a normal non-election year, Newsom might have been more cautious heading into his 2022 reelection campaign. But in early September, just three days into the 30-day period the governor has to review legislation, Newsom convincingly beat back the Republican-led effort to oust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just three days after that election, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-recall-california-laws-business-sacramento-53dd175af13e1a28dca3f05f1a94a498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed two laws\u003c/a> aimed at limiting single-family zoning in California, a stark change for a state with many communities that define suburban sprawl but now faces an affordable housing shortage. [aside postID=news_11840548]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, Newsom signed 92% of the bills lawmakers put on his desk — the highest percentage during his three years in office, according to an analysis by veteran lobbyist Chris Micheli, who has tracked gubernatorial vetoes for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result was “oodles of progressive legislation and oodles of [virtue] signaling,” said Bill Whalen, a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally, we have governors who have been more centrist than Newsom,” he said. “With the recall now gone, this is a governor who is really not threatened in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what counts as progressive in most of the country can be seen as moderate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom angered many among the state’s left wing with his vetoes, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-california-deforestation-bills-legislature-cad053757217c25e130387536958ef55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocking a bill\u003c/a> that would have required state contractors to confirm that their supply chains don’t contribute to tropical deforestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also axed a bill that would have made \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-california-sacramento-race-and-ethnicity-laws-07fea4fe45e37cc22297026e957f0289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jaywalking legal\u003c/a>, a move advocates have said is needed because police disproportionately stop and ticket Black people for the offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he halted a bill that would have let farmworkers vote by mail in union elections, a decision that made some workers so angry they \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1440816558251470852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marched in protest\u003c/a> to the French Laundry, the fancy restaurant in Yountville where Newsom was famously photographed dining without a mask during the pandemic. 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He signed a law making California the first state to prohibit mega-retailers like Amazon from firing workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he insisted on lawmakers removing language ordering regulators to impose a statewide standard on reasonable work speeds, according to Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the author of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From somebody who considers themselves probably to the left of this governor … I don’t think he went all that far,” said Gonzales, a Democrat from San Diego and chair of the powerful Assembly Appropriations Committee. “If you look at some of the bills, as they started, and then where they ended up because of input by the administration, then … you kind of see what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers did not send Newsom as many bills as they normally would. The pandemic limited where and how often lawmakers could hold committee hearings, prompting legislative leaders to limit lawmakers to authoring 12 bills each. And this was the first year of a two-year legislative session, so many of the most controversial proposals were delayed for consideration until next year.[aside tag=\"newsom, politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill would have eliminated the crime of loitering with the intent of “engaging in a prostitution offense,” a law advocates have said targets Black, Latino, and transgender women. 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Gavin Newsom has now completed three rounds of the annual ritual of deciding what should become law in California by giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to hundreds of bills sent to him by the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891336\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Capitol-1180x787-3-1020x680.jpeg\"]In year one, he used the routine to demonstrate differences from his predecessor, signing dozens of bills that Jerry Brown had vetoed — but also vetoing a greater proportion of bills than Brown typically did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In year two, with the Legislature largely sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsom signed fewer new laws than any governor in more than 50 years, instead governing through numerous executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year, his third, Newsom used his veto pen at about half the rate he did in his first year as governor, saying “no” to about 8% of the 836 bills that hit his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/hxNrlgiB93BuhlMnvrIa?src=embed\" title=\"2021 Vetoes\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In doing so, Newsom largely demonstrated a traditional governing philosophy, using his veto power to block bills that cost more than the state budgeted for, clashed with work already underway in his administration or were repeats of ideas he’d already nixed. Essentially, Newsom’s vetoes in 2021 proved more about what he has in common with his predecessors than how he is unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is similar to other governors in that there are some consistent themes or bases for governors to veto legislation,” said Chris Micheli, a lobbyist and attorney who teaches law school courses on the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His first year in office was very different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom held celebratory public events with legislators to sign their bills, he announced vetoes by listing them at the end of press releases. So, many of them flew under the radar. It required reading his veto messages to get explanations or justifications of why he didn’t believe the proposals should become law in California. On some bills, he cited multiple reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key themes that emerged from Newsom’s 66 vetoes this year:\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>That’s not in the budget\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some bills advancing causes that Newsom has championed in the past got his thumbs-down nonetheless. Why? Because, he argued in many veto messages, the proposal would cost money the state had not budgeted for, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862460/as-californias-rich-get-richer-state-expects-10-5-billion-surplus-despite-slow-economy\">despite an unprecedented windfall of state revenue and federal aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Newsom said in nixing a bill to raise the amount of salary that workers can receive while taking paid family leave — even though he signed two expansions of the family leave program in years past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891396\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SF-high-school-in-person-class-1020x680.jpg\"]A spokesperson from Newsom’s finance department told CalMatters that the bill would have hiked the cost for both employees and the state, including millions in computer upgrades and public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also made the cost argument in vetoing a huge expansion of college financial aid. Just months ago, he signed a budget that includes an additional $3.3 billion for colleges and universities, including $1.5 billion in increases for student grants and work study opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Expanding access to financial aid has been a priority for my Administration,” the Governor wrote in his veto. But, he told lawmakers, massive changes to the system need to be considered as part of the regular budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Calling out repeat bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As he’s becoming more seasoned as governor, a new theme is emerging in Newsom’s vetoes: calling out the repeats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I stated in a veto message on similar legislation in 2019,” Newsom wrote in nixing a bill that would prohibit paying petition circulators per signature gathered, “I appreciate the intent of this bill to incentivize grassroots support for the initiative, referendum, and recall process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891010\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/illustration_NewsomMoney_v1-1020x678.jpg\"]But, he said, changing the way workers are paid to gather signatures could make the process more costly, giving wealthy interests even more influence over the initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, he vetoed legislation to let supervisors in state government settle disputes through binding arbitration by saying it could add costs and create conflicts with existing procedures, “the same concerns I had with a previous, nearly-identical bill … which I also vetoed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Brown — who saw plenty of repeats as California’s longest-serving governor — also had a habit of using his veto messages to highlight the rationale behind his prior vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/g74doLv8ZouV2FRyiUiB?src=embed\" title=\"Newsom vetoes compared to other governors, 2021\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Overwhelming support is no guarantee\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom blocked a number of bills that were not controversial as they moved through the Legislature, making his veto a surprise after proposals advanced for months drama-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to crack down on the use of “bots” to scoop up camping reservations at state parks, for example, passed the Legislature with sweeping bipartisan support and had no formal opposition. Newsom, however, said the bill is unnecessary because the state has added security measures on its camping reservation website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890615\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1216832918-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB494\">SB 494\u003c/a>, a measure requiring police officers to be trained in “interpersonal communication skills and ethical science-based interviewing,” similarly sailed through the Capitol without a single “no” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he likes the idea but doesn’t want to create a mandatory cost for police departments. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-494-Message-Scan.pdf\">vetoing the bill\u003c/a>, he said he’ll direct the commission that trains police to create the training course and leave it up to departments to decide whether their officers take it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patio umbrellas hardly seem like a controversial subject. Lawmakers overwhelmingly agreed that state law should allow alcohol manufacturers to give away promotional patio umbrellas to venues that sell their liquor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom — owner of the PlumpJack wine and hospitality business, who often talks about launching a small wine shop as a young entrepreneur — vetoed the legislation, saying it would “increase alcohol signage and advertisements in public areas and disadvantage small alcohol manufacturers that cannot compete with the marketing budgets of multibillion-dollar corporations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Approaching some new ideas with caution\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On two bills meant to address the scourge of drug addiction, Newsom just said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1542\">AB 1542\u003c/a> would have allowed Yolo County to create a rehab program for people with a substance use disorder who commit certain crimes. The bill earned bipartisan support from lawmakers in both houses, but Newsom vetoed it saying it would lead to “forced treatment,” which could hinder “participants’ long-term recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891403\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51806_048_Oakland_HighlandHospitalBridgeProgram_10062021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Many progressive criminal justice reform groups opposed AB 1542, including the Drug Policy Alliance, whose board member George Soros donated $1 million to help Newsom fight last month’s recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Newsom vetoed another bill that the Drug Policy Alliance supported, a measure to allow Medi-Cal to cover money paid to people recovering from drug addiction as an incentive to stay sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto, Newsom wrote that the state is trying to launch a similar pilot project, the results of which he wants to evaluate before agreeing to any expansion. That bill cleared the Legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support, but was opposed by Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, he blocked two proposals aimed at changing rules of the road for walkers and bicyclists. One would have decriminalized jaywalking and the other would have let bicyclists ride through stop signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the jaywalking bill said people of color are unfairly targeted. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But, he said, changing the way workers are paid to gather signatures could make the process more costly, giving wealthy interests even more influence over the initiative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, he vetoed legislation to let supervisors in state government settle disputes through binding arbitration by saying it could add costs and create conflicts with existing procedures, “the same concerns I had with a previous, nearly-identical bill … which I also vetoed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Brown — who saw plenty of repeats as California’s longest-serving governor — also had a habit of using his veto messages to highlight the rationale behind his prior vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/g74doLv8ZouV2FRyiUiB?src=embed\" title=\"Newsom vetoes compared to other governors, 2021\" width=\"800\" height=\"712\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Overwhelming support is no guarantee\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom blocked a number of bills that were not controversial as they moved through the Legislature, making his veto a surprise after proposals advanced for months drama-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to crack down on the use of “bots” to scoop up camping reservations at state parks, for example, passed the Legislature with sweeping bipartisan support and had no formal opposition. Newsom, however, said the bill is unnecessary because the state has added security measures on its camping reservation website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard stands at the top of a narrow park that slopes downward toward a lifeguard training center and panoramic views of the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking over the horizon at a beautiful, beautiful ocean,” Shepard says. “It’s blue, serene — it’s quiet. It’s just a gorgeous, gorgeous view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891875 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia-tone portrait of an elaborately dressed couple, one in a three-piece suit and the other in a white dress with a bustle, holding a fan.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1020x1344.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1165x1536.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1554x2048.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce. \u003ccite>(California African American Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Shepard, this oceanfront park known as Bruce’s Beach — located in Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles — holds a painful history. “This is the land that our family used to own,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard’s ancestors, an African American couple named Charles and Willa Bruce, owned this land a century ago. The couple built a beachfront resort called Bruce’s Beach Lodge in 1912 and welcomed Black beachgoers with a restaurant, a dance hall and changing tents with bathing suits for rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bruces were run out of Manhattan Beach and forced to shut down their successful resort. Their property was seized by the city, and they lost their fortune. For years, the land was owned by the county of Los Angeles — until last month, when California passed a law that allowed the property to be transferred back to the couple’s descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic Bruce’s Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors also were victims of land theft in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Black resort faced harassment from white neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shepard, a cousin of the direct descendant of Charles and Willa Bruce, says Bruce’s Beach offered a refuge for Black patrons during the Jim Crowe era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t many areas where Black people could get into the water along the entire coast of California at that time,” Shepard, 70, tells NPR. He’s a clan chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bruce’s Beach] was a place where people could have social functions,” he says. “You had Black entertainers, actors and actresses, jazz artists, Black politicians as well as business owners and socialites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of a dune with only a couple buildings on it and many telephone poles. On the right, cyclists along an asphalt beachfront beyond rows of buildings.\" width=\"2672\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png 2672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1536x508.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-2048x678.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2672px) 100vw, 2672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce’s Beach in 1915 and in 2021. \u003ccite>(Manhattan Beach Historical Society; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, some white residents of Manhattan Beach feared an “invasion” by the African American community, according to local historian Robert L. Brigham’s 1956 Fresno State master’s thesis “Land Ownership and Occupancy by Negroes in Manhattan Beach, California.” White residents set up barricades to keep Black beachgoers from getting to the ocean, and the Ku Klux Klan, active along the California coast, reportedly planned attacks against the Bruces’ resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They slashed tires, they burned mattresses under the porch of the resort, they tried to blow up a gas meter of one of the residents here,” Shepard says. “They had 24/7 phone campaigns and made threats against Willa and her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The city of Manhattan Beach seized the resort\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1923, a white realtor named George H. Lindsey approached Manhattan Beach’s Board of Trustees with an option to condemn Bruce’s Beach through the Park and Playground Act of 1909, \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanbeach.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/46327/637539367135870000\">according to an April 13, 2021, report by the Bruce’s Beach Task Force\u003c/a>, a resident-led task force appointed by the Manhattan Beach City Council last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1924, Manhattan Beach city officials invoked eminent domain, claiming the city would build a public park over 30 lots, including the Bruces’ land and four other lots owned by African American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dribbles a basketball on a sidewalk between two green lawns with his son, who looks about 5.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A park visitor, Dorian Hill, plays basketball with his son at Bruce’s Beach. He says he felt drawn to the park before he knew the history. “And then I read the plaque. And then last summer happened,” Hill adds. “I was drawn here for a reason.” \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach resort was shuttered and demolished, and the property sat vacant for decades. Willa and Charles Bruce requested $120,000 for both damages and the value of their property, but the city granted them $14,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the two parcels of land are worth an estimated $75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB796\"> SB 796\u003c/a>, authorizing the county to transfer the land back to the Bruce family after nearly 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/05/la-county-prepares-for-bruces-beach-land-transfer/\">Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously\u003c/a> to begin the process of transferring the land. That process also will include confirming the Bruces’ rightful heirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re making history,” Newsom said at the ceremony held on Bruce’s Beach. “I’m proud to be here, not just for the descendants of the Bruce family, but for all of those families torn asunder because of racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891841 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe\" alt=\"Four African American people dressed finely and smiling in the sun on a beachside boardwalk.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-800x573.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1020x730.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-160x115.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1536x1100.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-2048x1466.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1920x1374.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two couples standing on a walkway at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Black landowners have faced eminent domain abuse for generations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach stands as just one example of land theft that’s taken place across the United States through violence, intimidation and legal maneuvers. For generations, Black landowners like Willa and Charles Bruce have been victimized by eminent domain abuse and unjust property laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why the Bruce’s case has been generating so much attention is because it represents the first instance in the history of the United States where an African American family or community that had their property taken unjustly, ended up having it returned,” says Thomas W. Mitchell, a property law scholar at Texas A&M University. He’s worked to reform discriminatory policies that have stripped African American people of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell is part of a research team called the Land Loss and Reparations Research Project, which is trying to put an economic value on agricultural land unjustly taken from Black farmers over the last hundred years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our research team has come up with a preliminary estimate of $300 billion,” Mitchell says, noting that it only accounts for the farmland itself. “We’re also going further and saying that as a result of losing this land, we lost the ability to benefit from the land ownership in terms of families getting loans to send their children to college, which then has a negative impact on economic mobility — and that’s just Black farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell estimates the total loss of generational wealth for Black Americans across the U.S. falls into the trillions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2674px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a sepia-toned photo of a couple, dressed in conservative beachwear, smiling, the man's hand on the woman's shoulder. On the right, a woman in a neon pink workout outfit poses as someone takes a photo with a mobile phone.\" width=\"2674\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png 2674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1020x335.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1536x504.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-2048x672.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1920x630.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2674px) 100vw, 2674px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise and Byron Kenner at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. Fitness coach Jasmine Dobbs poses for a photo on the walkway of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Credit: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But families such as the Bruces whose property was taken generations ago don’t have legal recourse to get their land back, Mitchell says. Statute-of-limitation restrictions prevent families from successfully filing lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell points to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white mobs tried to destroy what was known as Black Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there was a state commission. Yes, it did do a detailed report. Yes, that detailed report documented tremendous and horrible abuses and killings and burning of businesses and taking of property,” he says. “But it didn’t lead to one penny — it didn’t lead to a single property being returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891853 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A couple cuddles on a fuzzy blanket on the grass.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles locals Tiffany Harris and Avery Pike picnic at Bruce’s Beach. “It’s soothing to come to,” said Harris. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach had a different outcome because the government actually stepped in to make amends for a historical wrong. The California Legislature passed a law allowing for the land to be given back to the Bruce family, making it a unique case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the Bruce’s Beach case a recognition that the time has come for real racial justice in this country?” Mitchell asks. “Can this serve as a template for providing effective redress to other African American families who have had their property taken unjustly? We’ll see.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists are trying to help other Black families reclaim their land\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the signing ceremony in Manhattan Beach, Newsom recognized activist Kavon Ward as the driving force behind the Bruce’s Beach movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A monument saying "Bruce's" with a plaque engraved on it, with a laminated photograph propped on the plaque.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A printed-out wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce was placed on top of the plaque. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I informed the [Bruce] family that I would do anything in my power to help them,” Ward, 39, tells NPR. “Not only to get restitution for their loss of civil rights, their loss of business enterprise, but for me, I felt like justice was getting their land back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about the same time on the opposite coast, in Philadelphia, 43-year-old Ashanti Martin was on a similar mission. The two were introduced through a mutual friend, and together, Ward and Martin co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://whereismyland.org/\">Where Is My Land\u003c/a>, dedicated to helping Black Americans reclaim stolen land and secure restitution. Both say they were compelled to take action after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/systemic-racism/\">George Floyd’s ancestor Hillery Thomas Stewart\u003c/a> who, back in the late 1800s, had owned 500 acres of land in North Carolina, and that land was stolen by white farmers,” Martin says. “I think there’s no question, had George Floyd’s ancestors kept that land in their family, his life outcomes would have transformed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2670px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891858 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of three people sitting in a sand dune and leaning together. On the right, a view of the ocean, sun on the water and a flat beach with a handful of people on it.\" width=\"2670\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png 2670w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1536x507.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-2048x677.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1920x634.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2670px) 100vw, 2670px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three people at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, 1920s. A view of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through their organization, Martin and Ward are fielding dozens more requests from African American families across the U.S., hoping to reclaim their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we can handle all of this within my lifetime,” Ward says. “It took a long time for the land to be stolen — it didn’t happen overnight. And so getting it back is going to take even longer because there’s so many obstacles and roadblocks in the way. And so the only thing we can do is to make sure we’re dealing with this, one family at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Bruce family, they say they won’t move to Manhattan Beach or build on the land that’s now being returned to them. Instead, they’ll rent the lifeguard training center back to the County of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard, their descendent, says reclaiming Bruce’s Beach was just the first step. Now, he says his family will continue their fight for restitution for the loss of revenue over the past 97 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a polo shirt and a ball cap sits on a bench alongside a beach and rests both hands on the head of a cane.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard at Bruce’s Beach. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+Black+family+got+their+beach+back+%E2%80%94+and+inspired+others+to+fight+against+land+theft&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard stands at the top of a narrow park that slopes downward toward a lifeguard training center and panoramic views of the Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking over the horizon at a beautiful, beautiful ocean,” Shepard says. “It’s blue, serene — it’s quiet. It’s just a gorgeous, gorgeous view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891875 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Sepia-tone portrait of an elaborately dressed couple, one in a three-piece suit and the other in a white dress with a bustle, holding a fan.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1020x1344.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-160x211.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1165x1536.jpg 1165w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/bruce_wedding_custom-0595b4f6476a37c1595617dfdfbf29344315b2b3-s1600-c85-1554x2048.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce. \u003ccite>(California African American Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Shepard, this oceanfront park known as Bruce’s Beach — located in Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles — holds a painful history. “This is the land that our family used to own,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard’s ancestors, an African American couple named Charles and Willa Bruce, owned this land a century ago. The couple built a beachfront resort called Bruce’s Beach Lodge in 1912 and welcomed Black beachgoers with a restaurant, a dance hall and changing tents with bathing suits for rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bruces were run out of Manhattan Beach and forced to shut down their successful resort. Their property was seized by the city, and they lost their fortune. For years, the land was owned by the county of Los Angeles — until last month, when California passed a law that allowed the property to be transferred back to the couple’s descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic Bruce’s Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors also were victims of land theft in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Black resort faced harassment from white neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shepard, a cousin of the direct descendant of Charles and Willa Bruce, says Bruce’s Beach offered a refuge for Black patrons during the Jim Crowe era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There weren’t many areas where Black people could get into the water along the entire coast of California at that time,” Shepard, 70, tells NPR. He’s a clan chief of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Bruce’s Beach] was a place where people could have social functions,” he says. “You had Black entertainers, actors and actresses, jazz artists, Black politicians as well as business owners and socialites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891848 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of a dune with only a couple buildings on it and many telephone poles. On the right, cyclists along an asphalt beachfront beyond rows of buildings.\" width=\"2672\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM.png 2672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-800x265.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1536x508.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-2048x678.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.02.13-PM-1920x635.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2672px) 100vw, 2672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce’s Beach in 1915 and in 2021. \u003ccite>(Manhattan Beach Historical Society; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, some white residents of Manhattan Beach feared an “invasion” by the African American community, according to local historian Robert L. Brigham’s 1956 Fresno State master’s thesis “Land Ownership and Occupancy by Negroes in Manhattan Beach, California.” White residents set up barricades to keep Black beachgoers from getting to the ocean, and the Ku Klux Klan, active along the California coast, reportedly planned attacks against the Bruces’ resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They slashed tires, they burned mattresses under the porch of the resort, they tried to blow up a gas meter of one of the residents here,” Shepard says. “They had 24/7 phone campaigns and made threats against Willa and her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The city of Manhattan Beach seized the resort\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In November 1923, a white realtor named George H. Lindsey approached Manhattan Beach’s Board of Trustees with an option to condemn Bruce’s Beach through the Park and Playground Act of 1909, \u003ca href=\"https://www.manhattanbeach.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/46327/637539367135870000\">according to an April 13, 2021, report by the Bruce’s Beach Task Force\u003c/a>, a resident-led task force appointed by the Manhattan Beach City Council last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1924, Manhattan Beach city officials invoked eminent domain, claiming the city would build a public park over 30 lots, including the Bruces’ land and four other lots owned by African American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891849 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man dribbles a basketball on a sidewalk between two green lawns with his son, who looks about 5.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr378_custom-ac4cf19d93abdac5d79627a1c8ea7a66f6e9dfdb-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A park visitor, Dorian Hill, plays basketball with his son at Bruce’s Beach. He says he felt drawn to the park before he knew the history. “And then I read the plaque. And then last summer happened,” Hill adds. “I was drawn here for a reason.” \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach resort was shuttered and demolished, and the property sat vacant for decades. Willa and Charles Bruce requested $120,000 for both damages and the value of their property, but the city granted them $14,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the two parcels of land are worth an estimated $75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB796\"> SB 796\u003c/a>, authorizing the county to transfer the land back to the Bruce family after nearly 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2021/10/05/la-county-prepares-for-bruces-beach-land-transfer/\">Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously\u003c/a> to begin the process of transferring the land. That process also will include confirming the Bruces’ rightful heirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re making history,” Newsom said at the ceremony held on Bruce’s Beach. “I’m proud to be here, not just for the descendants of the Bruce family, but for all of those families torn asunder because of racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891841 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe\" alt=\"Four African American people dressed finely and smiling in the sun on a beachside boardwalk.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-scaled.jpe 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-800x573.jpe 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1020x730.jpe 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-160x115.jpe 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1536x1100.jpe 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-2048x1466.jpe 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/ark__21198_z1hd9ctd_custom-a2650f2fc838ef8b9c1cbc980def263c6eec0bcd-1920x1374.jpe 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two couples standing on a walkway at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Black landowners have faced eminent domain abuse for generations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach stands as just one example of land theft that’s taken place across the United States through violence, intimidation and legal maneuvers. For generations, Black landowners like Willa and Charles Bruce have been victimized by eminent domain abuse and unjust property laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons why the Bruce’s case has been generating so much attention is because it represents the first instance in the history of the United States where an African American family or community that had their property taken unjustly, ended up having it returned,” says Thomas W. Mitchell, a property law scholar at Texas A&M University. He’s worked to reform discriminatory policies that have stripped African American people of their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell is part of a research team called the Land Loss and Reparations Research Project, which is trying to put an economic value on agricultural land unjustly taken from Black farmers over the last hundred years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our research team has come up with a preliminary estimate of $300 billion,” Mitchell says, noting that it only accounts for the farmland itself. “We’re also going further and saying that as a result of losing this land, we lost the ability to benefit from the land ownership in terms of families getting loans to send their children to college, which then has a negative impact on economic mobility — and that’s just Black farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell estimates the total loss of generational wealth for Black Americans across the U.S. falls into the trillions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2674px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891850 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a sepia-toned photo of a couple, dressed in conservative beachwear, smiling, the man's hand on the woman's shoulder. On the right, a woman in a neon pink workout outfit poses as someone takes a photo with a mobile phone.\" width=\"2674\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM.png 2674w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-800x263.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1020x335.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1536x504.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-2048x672.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.08.27-PM-1920x630.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2674px) 100vw, 2674px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise and Byron Kenner at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, circa 1920. Fitness coach Jasmine Dobbs poses for a photo on the walkway of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Credit: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But families such as the Bruces whose property was taken generations ago don’t have legal recourse to get their land back, Mitchell says. Statute-of-limitation restrictions prevent families from successfully filing lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell points to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white mobs tried to destroy what was known as Black Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, there was a state commission. Yes, it did do a detailed report. Yes, that detailed report documented tremendous and horrible abuses and killings and burning of businesses and taking of property,” he says. “But it didn’t lead to one penny — it didn’t lead to a single property being returned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891853 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A couple cuddles on a fuzzy blanket on the grass.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr307_custom-75d19bb2045973f073db222c8e8e0db22f011a0a-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles locals Tiffany Harris and Avery Pike picnic at Bruce’s Beach. “It’s soothing to come to,” said Harris. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bruce’s Beach had a different outcome because the government actually stepped in to make amends for a historical wrong. The California Legislature passed a law allowing for the land to be given back to the Bruce family, making it a unique case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the Bruce’s Beach case a recognition that the time has come for real racial justice in this country?” Mitchell asks. “Can this serve as a template for providing effective redress to other African American families who have had their property taken unjustly? We’ll see.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Activists are trying to help other Black families reclaim their land\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the signing ceremony in Manhattan Beach, Newsom recognized activist Kavon Ward as the driving force behind the Bruce’s Beach movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891855 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A monument saying "Bruce's" with a plaque engraved on it, with a laminated photograph propped on the plaque.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr241_custom-d11a96ba071ef274e484f9b3e32bd8ef78610884-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A printed-out wedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce was placed on top of the plaque. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I informed the [Bruce] family that I would do anything in my power to help them,” Ward, 39, tells NPR. “Not only to get restitution for their loss of civil rights, their loss of business enterprise, but for me, I felt like justice was getting their land back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about the same time on the opposite coast, in Philadelphia, 43-year-old Ashanti Martin was on a similar mission. The two were introduced through a mutual friend, and together, Ward and Martin co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://whereismyland.org/\">Where Is My Land\u003c/a>, dedicated to helping Black Americans reclaim stolen land and secure restitution. Both say they were compelled to take action after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/systemic-racism/\">George Floyd’s ancestor Hillery Thomas Stewart\u003c/a> who, back in the late 1800s, had owned 500 acres of land in North Carolina, and that land was stolen by white farmers,” Martin says. “I think there’s no question, had George Floyd’s ancestors kept that land in their family, his life outcomes would have transformed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2670px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891858 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png\" alt=\"On the left, a black-and-white photo of three people sitting in a sand dune and leaning together. On the right, a view of the ocean, sun on the water and a flat beach with a handful of people on it.\" width=\"2670\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM.png 2670w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-800x264.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1020x337.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-160x53.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1536x507.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-2048x677.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-11-at-12.17.02-PM-1920x634.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2670px) 100vw, 2670px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three people at Bruce’s Beach, Manhattan Beach, 1920s. A view of Manhattan Beach in 2021. \u003ccite>(Miriam Matthews Photograph Collections, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.; Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through their organization, Martin and Ward are fielding dozens more requests from African American families across the U.S., hoping to reclaim their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that we can handle all of this within my lifetime,” Ward says. “It took a long time for the land to be stolen — it didn’t happen overnight. And so getting it back is going to take even longer because there’s so many obstacles and roadblocks in the way. And so the only thing we can do is to make sure we’re dealing with this, one family at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Bruce family, they say they won’t move to Manhattan Beach or build on the land that’s now being returned to them. Instead, they’ll rent the lifeguard training center back to the County of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shepard, their descendent, says reclaiming Bruce’s Beach was just the first step. Now, he says his family will continue their fight for restitution for the loss of revenue over the past 97 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891859 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a polo shirt and a ball cap sits on a bench alongside a beach and rests both hands on the head of a cane.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/brucebeach_npr094_custom-bd18eda5053cbd03ca88d74d68d7837eb0715df1-s2600-c85-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Duane “Yellow Feather” Shepard at Bruce’s Beach. \u003ccite>(Bethany Mollenkof for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a slew of new legislation in recent weeks, ahead of Sunday’s deadline. That hefty stack of bills — among the hundreds that crossed his desk — touches nearly every policy area, including housing, health, education and wildfire mitigation. The measures stand to affect millions of California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The many noteworthy ones in the pile include \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/05/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-strengthen-state-unemployment-insurance-delivery-system/\">legislation to boost identity theft protection\u003c/a> at the state Employment Development Department, which may have paid out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-edd-unemployment-crisis-explained/\">up to $31 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims\u003c/a> since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor also recently inked a bill adopting a universal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">vote-by-mail\u003c/a> ballot system for all future elections, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888891/bill-regulating-computer-driven-productivity-quotas-at-california-warehouses-lands-on-gov-newsoms-desk\">first-in-the-nation law aimed at protecting California workers in retail warehouses\u003c/a> like those run by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Newsom also has vetoed a number of bills, including one that would have, among other things, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AB-990-PDF.pdf\">established visitation as a civil right\u003c/a> to people who are incarcerated. Perhaps the biggest veto shocker so far this year has been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">his recent rejection of a bill that sought to increase pay rates during paid family leave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-legislature\"]Below is a rundown of just some of the headline-grabbing legislation Newsom has recently signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Universal pre-K, dual-immersion language programs, college savings accounts, ethnic studies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article254772347.html\">signed a trio of bills\u003c/a>, part of a record-setting $124 billion investment in public schools. It includes about $2.7 billion to help create a universal pre-K program for 4-year-olds by 2025 and directs roughly $10 million to expand dual-immersion language programs. The package, a key part of Newsom’s long-touted California Comeback Plan, also includes $1.9 billion to help create college savings accounts of up to $1,500 for some students, as well as $170 million in ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transferring to state universities and affordable student housing\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe following day, the governor also signed a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/newsom-signs-bills-to-ease-college-transfer-and-improve-student-housing/662048\">$47.1 billion higher education package of bills\u003c/a>, including one making it easier for community college students to transfer to the California State University and University of California systems. The legislation also includes $2 billion in funds to increase affordable housing for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Friday signed the aptly numbered \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, making a one-semester ethnic studies class a graduation requirement for all California public high school students, beginning with the class of 2030. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">unexpectedly vetoed an initial version\u003c/a> of the bill last year, saying the model curriculum needed to be more inclusive. The bill was reintroduced in December after the curriculum had been thoroughly — and painstakingly — revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing wait times for mental health appointments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221\">SB 221\u003c/a>, a bill to require health insurers across the state to reduce wait times for mental health appointments to no more than 10 business days. While current state law requires insurers to provide initial mental health appointments in 10 days, there is no clear regulation around follow-up appointments, resulting in what state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill’s author, called “obscene delays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of Californians say they have to wait too long to see a mental health provider when they need one, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/californians-want-action-health-care-costs-mental-health-treatment/\">according to a survey by the California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente specifically, 87% of therapists said weekly appointments were not available to patients who needed them, according to a survey by the \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/\">National Union of Healthcare Workers\u003c/a>, which represents Kaiser’s therapists and was the main sponsor of the bill. The bill passed both houses of the Legislature in a near-unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891049/california-bill-would-reduce-wait-times-for-mental-health-appointments\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 221.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VETOED: Incentives for people to not use drugs\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNewsom on Friday vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110\">SB 110\u003c/a>, a controversial bill which would have allowed Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to provide money or gift cards as incentives for people struggling with drug addiction to stay off drugs — with the goal of encouraging more treatment centers to offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to embrace this proven, effective approach to meth addiction, make it clearly legal and start reimbursing for it, so we can address this health epidemic,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">While suggesting he was open to the bill’s novel drug treatment approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-110-1082021.pdf\">Newsom in his veto message said it was “premature,”\u003c/a> and called for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854373/state-lawmakers-move-to-expand-effective-but-controversial-treatment-for-meth-addiction\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 110.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Streamlining housing approvals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom approved three major housing bills in September, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB8\">SB 8\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which extends through 2030 an existing law that expedites the approval process for housing projects and reduces fee increases on local housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">SB 9\u003c/a>, introduced by state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, which allows the development of up to two duplexes without local reviews or hearings, in neighborhoods in most cities that are currently zoned for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">SB 10\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, which offers cities the option to rezone certain land for the construction of as many as 10 units while bypassing an initial review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about these three laws from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889113/in-one-week-newsom-signed-three-major-housing-bills-heres-what-they-mean\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed a slate of new police reform bills into law on Sept. 30, including creating higher education standards for officers, requiring officers to intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force, banning certain physical holds that cause asphyxiation and laying out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations. The bills include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB2\">SB 2\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, which lays out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations, including using excessive force, committing sexual assault, intimidating witnesses, making a false arrest or report or participating in a law enforcement gang. Other grounds include “demonstrating bias” based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or mental disability, among other criteria.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">SB 16\u003c/a>, which expands state Sen. Nancy Skinner’s 2018 landmark police transparency law, SB 1421, or “The Right to Know Act,” which opened up three narrow categories of police records: investigations into deadly or serious use of force by police, investigations that found officers committed sexual assault on duty or told official lies. SB 16 opens up three more categories of records: investigations into officers who were found to have engaged in bias or discrimination, made unlawful arrests or searches, or used excessive or unreasonable force.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB89\">AB 89\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, which raises the minimum age of eligibility to become a cop from 18 to 21 and expands education requirements for officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB26\">AB 26\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, requires officers to intervene if they see a fellow officer using excessive force and protects them from retaliation if they report another officer for violating policy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">Read KQED’s coverage of this slate of police reforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Climate change, drought, wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sept. 23 signed a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NATION-LEADING-15B-CLIMATE-PACKAGE.pdf\">$15 billion climate change package\u003c/a>, as part of the state’s record-high budget. It directs $3.9 billion over the next three years to expand use of electric vehicles in the state, in accordance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/cars/california-2035-zev-mandate/index.html\">Newsom’s mandate that only zero-emission new passenger cars and trucks be sold in California by 2035\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976869/heres-whats-inside-newsoms-whopping-15-billion-climate-spending-plan\">That pot\u003c/a> includes funding for new consumer rebates, the production of thousands of buses and heavy-duty trucks, and incentives for Californians with lower incomes to trade in their gas cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also will spend $3.7 billion to: prepare communities to deal with sea-level rise, fund energy-efficient homes, and invest in lower-income communities and communities of color, with the goal of improving air quality and reducing heat disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same package allots about $5.2 billion to immediate drought relief and water measures, including money for projects to boost water recycling, reduce flooding risks and clean up contaminated groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package also \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-science-business-california-gavin-newsom-f867c179fa49f32c0ed7098e98e33aeb\">earmarks about $1 billion\u003c/a> in new spending for fire breaks, tree thinning and other measures meant to prevent fires from burning out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it includes $19 million for the state to work with tribes on prescribed burns — up from just $1 million last year — as well as training for firefighters. The state also plans to invest in micro-lumber mills and other businesses that reuse old wood from overgrown forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB642\">AB 642\u003c/a>, which requires the state to increase the workforce that can perform prescribed burns in an effort to eliminate fuels that have contributed to extremely destructive fires in the state. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, also requires that Cal Fire create a cultural burning liaison position within the agency who will work with tribes and cultural practitioners to ensure the agency is respecting tribal sovereignty and enabling cultural fire traditions and practices to carry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This speaks to the importance of communities, private landowners and private citizens in being part of the fire solutions,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension who helped draft the legislation. “And you know that the agencies can’t do it on their own anymore. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Below is a rundown of just some of the headline-grabbing legislation Newsom has recently signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Education\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Universal pre-K, dual-immersion language programs, college savings accounts, ethnic studies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn Tuesday, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article254772347.html\">signed a trio of bills\u003c/a>, part of a record-setting $124 billion investment in public schools. It includes about $2.7 billion to help create a universal pre-K program for 4-year-olds by 2025 and directs roughly $10 million to expand dual-immersion language programs. The package, a key part of Newsom’s long-touted California Comeback Plan, also includes $1.9 billion to help create college savings accounts of up to $1,500 for some students, as well as $170 million in ongoing funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transferring to state universities and affordable student housing\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe following day, the governor also signed a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/newsom-signs-bills-to-ease-college-transfer-and-improve-student-housing/662048\">$47.1 billion higher education package of bills\u003c/a>, including one making it easier for community college students to transfer to the California State University and University of California systems. The legislation also includes $2 billion in funds to increase affordable housing for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ethnic studies curriculum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Friday signed the aptly numbered \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, making a one-semester ethnic studies class a graduation requirement for all California public high school students, beginning with the class of 2030. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">unexpectedly vetoed an initial version\u003c/a> of the bill last year, saying the model curriculum needed to be more inclusive. The bill was reintroduced in December after the curriculum had been thoroughly — and painstakingly — revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Health\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing wait times for mental health appointments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB221\">SB 221\u003c/a>, a bill to require health insurers across the state to reduce wait times for mental health appointments to no more than 10 business days. While current state law requires insurers to provide initial mental health appointments in 10 days, there is no clear regulation around follow-up appointments, resulting in what state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the bill’s author, called “obscene delays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of Californians say they have to wait too long to see a mental health provider when they need one, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/blog/californians-want-action-health-care-costs-mental-health-treatment/\">according to a survey by the California Health Care Foundation\u003c/a>. At Kaiser Permanente specifically, 87% of therapists said weekly appointments were not available to patients who needed them, according to a survey by the \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/\">National Union of Healthcare Workers\u003c/a>, which represents Kaiser’s therapists and was the main sponsor of the bill. The bill passed both houses of the Legislature in a near-unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891049/california-bill-would-reduce-wait-times-for-mental-health-appointments\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 221.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>VETOED: Incentives for people to not use drugs\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNewsom on Friday vetoed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB110\">SB 110\u003c/a>, a controversial bill which would have allowed Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, to provide money or gift cards as incentives for people struggling with drug addiction to stay off drugs — with the goal of encouraging more treatment centers to offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to embrace this proven, effective approach to meth addiction, make it clearly legal and start reimbursing for it, so we can address this health epidemic,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">While suggesting he was open to the bill’s novel drug treatment approach, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SB-110-1082021.pdf\">Newsom in his veto message said it was “premature,”\u003c/a> and called for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11854373/state-lawmakers-move-to-expand-effective-but-controversial-treatment-for-meth-addiction\">Read KQED’s coverage of SB 110.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Streamlining housing approvals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom approved three major housing bills in September, including \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB8\">SB 8\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which extends through 2030 an existing law that expedites the approval process for housing projects and reduces fee increases on local housing applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\">SB 9\u003c/a>, introduced by state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, which allows the development of up to two duplexes without local reviews or hearings, in neighborhoods in most cities that are currently zoned for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB10\">SB 10\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, which offers cities the option to rezone certain land for the construction of as many as 10 units while bypassing an initial review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about these three laws from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889113/in-one-week-newsom-signed-three-major-housing-bills-heres-what-they-mean\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom signed a slate of new police reform bills into law on Sept. 30, including creating higher education standards for officers, requiring officers to intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force, banning certain physical holds that cause asphyxiation and laying out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations. 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SB 16 opens up three more categories of records: investigations into officers who were found to have engaged in bias or discrimination, made unlawful arrests or searches, or used excessive or unreasonable force.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB89\">AB 89\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, which raises the minimum age of eligibility to become a cop from 18 to 21 and expands education requirements for officers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB26\">AB 26\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, requires officers to intervene if they see a fellow officer using excessive force and protects them from retaliation if they report another officer for violating policy.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">Read KQED’s coverage of this slate of police reforms.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Climate change, drought, wildfires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Sept. 23 signed a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NATION-LEADING-15B-CLIMATE-PACKAGE.pdf\">$15 billion climate change package\u003c/a>, as part of the state’s record-high budget. 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"content": "\u003cp>California high school students will have to complete a semester of ethnic studies in order to graduate, starting with the class of 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That new secondary school requirement, among the first in the nation, was signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said the courses will enable students to learn their own stories as well as those of their classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A number of studies have shown that these courses boost student achievement over the long run — especially among students of color,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law requires all public high schools in the state to offer at least one ethnic studies course, starting in the 2025-26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s signature marks a major victory for Assemblymember Jose Medina, D-Riverside, who co\u003cstrong>–\u003c/strong>authored the legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, after his previous efforts were twice vetoed — \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">last year by Newsom\u003c/a>, who said more work was needed on the curriculum, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pe.com/2018/10/02/gov-brown-rejects-ethnic-studies-bill-saying-high-school-students-are-overburdened/\">in 2018 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who was reluctant to create additional graduation requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said the ethnic studies requirement is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long wait,” said Medina. “I think schools are ready now to make curriculum that is more equitable and more reflective of social justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina said America’s wider discussion of race and racism since the murder of George Floyd last year makes such a curriculum more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethnic studies movement has its roots in California, where students protested in the late 1960s at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley to demand courses in African American, Chicano, Asian American and Native American studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the state Board of Education approved a model ethnic studies curriculum that offers dozens of suggested lesson plans and instructional approaches. But to the concern of some advocates, the curriculum is not mandatory: Schools can pick and choose lesson plans or use it as a guide to design their own, as long as they don’t promote, directly or indirectly, any bias or discrimination against any group of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ethnic-studies\"]The curriculum underwent several drafts over three years and was subject to heated debate before \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-california-f0eb208ca8186466b9271cbc61fa5c2c\">winning approval in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial 2019 draft of the model curriculum drew widespread criticism from those who claimed it was left-wing, anti-Semitic and not inclusive enough. At the time, state Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond called for a major overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A model curriculum should be accurate, free of bias, appropriate for all learners in our diverse state, and align with Governor Newsom’s vision of a California for all,” she said in a 2019 statement. “The current draft model curriculum falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. It also includes lesson plans on Jews, Arab Americans, Sikh Americans and Armenian Americans, groups who were largely left out of the previously drafted curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has championed the model curriculum as a way to help students of color see themselves reflected in what they learn, and also to learn about their own histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation adds the completion of an ethnic studies course to other standard graduation requirements, including three years of English and social studies, two years of math and science, among others. It gives a few years’ lag time so schools can prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools can’t just flip the switch and be ready. This gives school districts plenty of time to get their curriculum in place and hire well-qualified teachers to teach these classes,” Medina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of California’s largest districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870309/as-high-school-ethnic-studies-bill-advances-some-bay-area-schools-are-ahead-of-the-curve\">already have begun offering ethnic studies courses\u003c/a>, with some making them a graduation requirement. Among the trailblazers is the Fresno Unified School District, which this year began requiring its students to complete a 10-credit, two-semester ethnic studies course. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Unified plans to fully implement ethnic studies as a graduation requirement by 2023-24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where high schools have offered ethnic studies as an elective since 2015, students will be required to take two semesters of ethnic studies courses to graduate, starting in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethnic studies also was made a requirement this year for the state’s community college students seeking an associate’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other states have taken different approaches. Oregon is developing ethnic studies standards for its social studies curriculum and, beginning this year, requires the subject in K-12 curriculum. Last year, Connecticut approved a law requiring all high schools to offer courses in Black and Latino studies by the fall of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several GOP-led states have taken the opposite tack, banning the teaching of so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-critical-race-theory-08f5d0a0489c7d6eab7d9a238365d2c1\">critical race theory\u003c/a> in K-12 schools or limiting how teachers can discuss racism and sexism in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say it is fitting that California has taken a lead in ethnic studies legislation, and that it’s long overdue. More than three-quarters of California’s 6 million public school students are not white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when some states are retreating from an accurate discussion of our history, I am proud that California continues to lead in its teaching of ethnic studies,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former academic who created an ethnic studies program at San Diego State University in the 1970s, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Jocelyn Gecker of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The curriculum underwent several drafts over three years and was subject to heated debate before \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-california-f0eb208ca8186466b9271cbc61fa5c2c\">winning approval in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An initial 2019 draft of the model curriculum drew widespread criticism from those who claimed it was left-wing, anti-Semitic and not inclusive enough. At the time, state Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond called for a major overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A model curriculum should be accurate, free of bias, appropriate for all learners in our diverse state, and align with Governor Newsom’s vision of a California for all,” she said in a 2019 statement. “The current draft model curriculum falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new version focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. It also includes lesson plans on Jews, Arab Americans, Sikh Americans and Armenian Americans, groups who were largely left out of the previously drafted curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has championed the model curriculum as a way to help students of color see themselves reflected in what they learn, and also to learn about their own histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation adds the completion of an ethnic studies course to other standard graduation requirements, including three years of English and social studies, two years of math and science, among others. It gives a few years’ lag time so schools can prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools can’t just flip the switch and be ready. This gives school districts plenty of time to get their curriculum in place and hire well-qualified teachers to teach these classes,” Medina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of California’s largest districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870309/as-high-school-ethnic-studies-bill-advances-some-bay-area-schools-are-ahead-of-the-curve\">already have begun offering ethnic studies courses\u003c/a>, with some making them a graduation requirement. Among the trailblazers is the Fresno Unified School District, which this year began requiring its students to complete a 10-credit, two-semester ethnic studies course. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Unified plans to fully implement ethnic studies as a graduation requirement by 2023-24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where high schools have offered ethnic studies as an elective since 2015, students will be required to take two semesters of ethnic studies courses to graduate, starting in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethnic studies also was made a requirement this year for the state’s community college students seeking an associate’s degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other states have taken different approaches. Oregon is developing ethnic studies standards for its social studies curriculum and, beginning this year, requires the subject in K-12 curriculum. Last year, Connecticut approved a law requiring all high schools to offer courses in Black and Latino studies by the fall of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several GOP-led states have taken the opposite tack, banning the teaching of so-called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/what-is-critical-race-theory-08f5d0a0489c7d6eab7d9a238365d2c1\">critical race theory\u003c/a> in K-12 schools or limiting how teachers can discuss racism and sexism in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators say it is fitting that California has taken a lead in ethnic studies legislation, and that it’s long overdue. More than three-quarters of California’s 6 million public school students are not white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when some states are retreating from an accurate discussion of our history, I am proud that California continues to lead in its teaching of ethnic studies,” Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former academic who created an ethnic studies program at San Diego State University in the 1970s, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from Jocelyn Gecker of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Gov. Gavin Newsom wraps up a month of high-stakes decisions about what should become law in California, he’s also making calls that affect many of the donors who just spent millions of dollars to help him defeat the historic Sept. 14 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Prof. Jessica Levinson, Loyola Law School\"]‘It is this perfect storm highlighting for us how money works in politics.’[/pullquote]Labor unions, real estate moguls, tech titans — interest groups that lobby at the state Capitol often try to sway elections. That’s nothing new. But the attempt to remove Newsom presented them with an unusually stark opportunity to try to wield influence: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">Donors could give the governor unlimited sums of campaign money\u003c/a> for an election held \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">the same week Newsom began signing and vetoing bills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turbo-charged something that was already supercharged,” said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. “It is this perfect storm highlighting for us how money works in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, the job of the most powerful decision-maker in California only comes before voters every four years. Regular elections in November take place after the governor has concluded signing bills for the year — and the law limits how much money donors can give. But those conventions didn’t apply to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you start from donation-land and you drive to decision-land, that road used to be a lot longer. But thanks to the recall it’s half a block away,” Levinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888736\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1340327585-1020x678.jpg\"]For some donors, the unusual election was just another way to give to someone they already supported: About 260 donors who contributed to the anti-recall committee also gave Newsom a total of $1 million this year for his 2022 reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has until October 10 to finish signing the roughly 800 bills lawmakers sent him this year. His spokesperson Erin Mellon said, “The governor’s decisions, always grounded in sound policy and good governance, are made in the best interest of the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key donors who contributed to the $71 million campaign war chest that helped Newsom keep his job. Click on any of the options listed below to learn how much each group donated and what bills they’re invested in the outcome of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#entertainment\">\u003cstrong>Entertainment industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tech\">\u003cstrong>Big Tech\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tribes\">\u003cstrong>Native American tribes\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#realtors\">\u003cstrong>Real estate industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#labor\">\u003cstrong>Labor unions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891028 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The stories-high, bright-white letters of the Hollywood sign are seen from the ground directly below, filling the entire frame.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hollywood sign seen on Dec. 4, 2012, in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"entertainment\">\u003c/a>Hollywood: $3.9 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/union-backed-california-bill-offers-new-film-and-tv-tax-break\">entertainment industry lobbied for expanded tax credits\u003c/a> last year, but legislation never reached the governor’s desk. This year, show biz executives donated at least $3.9 million to help Newsom fight the recall as their lobbyists scored new industry tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That generosity included a $3 million check in May from Netflix founder Reed Hastings, making him Newsom’s biggest individual donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Newsom signed legislation as part of the state budget that gives \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB144\">an additional $330 million in tax credits to film and television productions\u003c/a>. The credits have not yet been awarded, but \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/biz/news/california-netflix-film-tax-credit-1235046051/\">Netflix was the biggest winner\u003c/a> in an earlier round, scoring $43 million for three productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These tax breaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/21/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-bolster-states-film-and-television-industry-creating-good-jobs-and-promoting-a-diverse-workforce/\">Newsom said when he signed them into law\u003c/a>, will “fuel the California Comeback through thousands of good jobs right here in the Golden State.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next month, Deadline reported, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2021/08/gavin-newsom-recall-jeffrey-katzenberg-hollywood-1234810924/\">Hollywood bigwigs hosted a virtual fundraiser \u003c/a>to help Newsom fight the recall. Campaign finance records show that in August director Steven Spielberg gave the anti-recall campaign $25,000, Disney Studios executive Alan Horn and his wife gave $50,000, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the veteran film producer who recently founded a tech company, gave $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberg, in a recent New York Times podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-jeffrey-katzenberg.html\">called the effort to oust Newsom a “nonsensical, idiotic recall” \u003c/a>and said governors across the country have faced extraordinary challenges in managing the pandemic. Newsom, he said, has “actually done a decent job, given the circumstances.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789507 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of a mobile phone screen, with app icons for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tech\">\u003c/a>Tech: $3.8 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Relationship status between Newsom and the tech industry? It’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executives who had a history of supporting Democrats, including Newsom, turned heads when they \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/recode/22245414/gavin-newsom-recall-silicon-valley-money\">started donating to the campaign to throw the governor out of office\u003c/a>, saying they were fed up with his pandemic management. Their money helped gather enough signatures to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/voting-california-recall-election/\">put the recall on the ballot\u003c/a> and their Silicon Valley fame gave the GOP-led campaign a bipartisan patina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech investor David Sacks — who gave Newsom nearly $60,000 in 2018 only to spend more than $100,000 trying to oust him this year — said the recall was worth it even though Newsom won in a landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at when Newsom relaxed the lockdowns, it was at every step of the recall process,” Sacks said recently on \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/R76THi_c90o?t=1185\">his “All In” podcast\u003c/a>. “And he got the education unions to stand down on the issue of school reopenings, I think because he was facing this recall. So … the recall was worth it, just for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other tech titans helped defend Newsom — to the tune of at least $3.8 million. That includes $750,000 from Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; $400,000 from Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs; $500,000 from DoorDash executives and their spouses; $100,000 from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; $100,000 from Airbnb; and $75,000 from Uber and its CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom doesn’t have a lot of tech-related legislation to evaluate this year. Most of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-social-media-regulations-2021/\">the bills internet companies lobbied against\u003c/a> stalled early in the year and never reached his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lawmakers did \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB286\">send him a bill meant to crack down on food delivery apps\u003c/a> such as DoorDash and Uber Eats by prohibiting them from marking up the price of food they deliver and requiring them to reveal any service fees to customers. Tech trade associations oppose it, arguing that fee arrangements between restaurants and delivery services should remain confidential. Newsom has yet to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He already signed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">legislation targeting warehouses like Amazon’s\u003c/a>, where workers had complained of skipping bathroom breaks and safety precautions under pressure to meet quick delivery times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two years ago, Newsom signed sweeping legislation meant to curb the gig economy by limiting the use of independent contractors — a move that put him at odds with donors such as Uber and DoorDash.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tribes\">\u003c/a>Native American tribes: $3.8 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several Native American tribes that run casinos donated a combined $3.8 million to help Newsom fight the recall as they pushed to expand gambling in California. Tribes are behind a proposed ballot initiative that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2819-0029A1%29.pdf\">would allow sports betting at their casinos\u003c/a> — if voters approve and if the governor sanctions it through compacts with individual tribes. The tribes’ proposal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/08/31/sports-gambling-giants-back-new-online-betting-initiative-in-california-1390581\">one of a few different sports betting measures\u003c/a> that could be on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Legislature this year, tribes lobbied for bills to expand recognition of Native Americans and change how the state and tribal governments work together on issues related to child welfare, foster children and firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/on-native-american-day-governor-newsom-signs-package-of-legislation-to-advance-equity-and-inclusion-support-california-native-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/on-native-american-day-governor-newsom-signs-package-of-legislation-to-advance-equity-and-inclusion-support-california-native-communities/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">signed the bills on Native American Day\u003c/a> this past September, including legislation to replace the Columbus Day holiday in state courts with Native American Day on Sept. 24; \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/religion-california-san-francisco-sacramento-gavin-newsom-d6dd0f163797de25cb38ab8419504afb?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0cf142936b-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-0cf142936b-148328085&mc_cid=0cf142936b&mc_eid=304e5f7b04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://apnews.com/article/religion-california-san-francisco-sacramento-gavin-newsom-d6dd0f163797de25cb38ab8419504afb?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0cf142936b-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-0cf142936b-148328085&mc_cid=0cf142936b&mc_eid=304e5f7b04\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">to build a memorial to Native Americans at the state Capitol\u003c/a> where a statue of a missionary was toppled amid protests against racism; and to establish recommendations permitting Native American students to wear cultural or spiritual items at high school graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s relationship with Native American tribes predates the recall. During his first year as governor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article231693103.html\">Newsom apologized on behalf of the state\u003c/a> for “the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect California inflicted on tribes.” And he established a Truth and Healing Council to clarify historical records about the relationship between tribes and the state — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">efforts his office described as first in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891029 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden facade with scaffolding towers over the older, more residential buildings.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New building construction is seen in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles Sept. 24, 2021. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"realtors\">\u003c/a>Real estate: $5.3 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Developers, real estate investors and realtors gave at least $5.3 million to help Newsom fight the recall as their industry pushed legislation to make it easier to build more homes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not building enough housing at all income levels in the state of California,” Newsom said last week as he signed more than two dozen bills aimed at boosting development. “We recognize that we’ve got to make up for decades and decades of … that neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second batch of housing bills Newsom has signed since the recall. The first included two controversial measures that will allow duplexes in neighborhoods zoned for single-family houses and let cities approve buildings with up to 10 apartments in areas near public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics suing the state over the new law allowing 10-unit apartment buildings dubbed it a “birthday present to developers.” Supporters argue that building more homes will help Californians who struggle to afford rent in the state’s tight housing markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s shortage of affordable homes has been a focus of Newsom’s since he ran for governor in 2018. He campaigned on a goal to build 3.5 million homes by 2025, but so far has not come close. Newsom said the new laws he signed this year should help spur construction of 40,000 new housing units, plus 44,000 units and treatment beds for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all developers are on Newsom’s side. Geoff Palmer, who owns a company that has built many Southern California apartment buildings, was one of the biggest donors to the effort to recall Newsom. He gave $200,000 to help qualify the recall for the ballot and more than $1 million to support the candidacy of Republican radio host Larry Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold up a sign that reads, \"Medicare for All! Defeat the Recall! Healthy California Now.\"' width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists, including those from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), demonstrate in Sacramento on June 15, 2021, to push Gov. Gavin Newsom to enact single-payer health care and defend him from the Republican-driven recall campaign. “I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of NUHW. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"labor\">\u003c/a>Labor unions: $25.7 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Labor unions are the elephant in the room when it comes to money Newsom raised to fight the recall. Organized labor donated at least $25.7 million — or more than one-third of the total the governor raised to keep his job. Unions, of course, have deep ties to the Democratic Party and a stake in nearly every aspect of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One labor leader cited Newsom’s actions to let child care workers unionize, provide extra sick leave during the pandemic and reverse cuts to in-home caregivers as reasons they put so much money and effort into helping him win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SEIU members will fight to protect the significant gains for workers and communities that we secured in partnership with our pro-worker Governor,” April Verrett, president of SEIU California, said in a statement after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU donated $6.6 million to the anti-recall campaign and deployed thousands of its members to knock on doors and call voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the union, which represents nursing home workers, is waiting to see whether Newsom will sign a package of bills it pushed to strengthen nursing home regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom signed a pay hike for prison guards, whose union donated $1.8 million to fight the recall. And, amid soaring tax revenues, he signed a state budget that gives public schools more money than ever. Teachers gave about $2.4 million to defeat the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction workers gave nearly $7 million to the anti-recall campaign. Newsom pushed this year for more spending on high-speed rail, which would have been a boon to construction jobs, but was unable to convince lawmakers to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More on the 2021 Recall Election' tag='recall']The governor did not do everything labor unions wanted. He vetoed legislation that would have allowed farmworkers more ways to vote in union elections, triggering a protest in which they marched to the French Laundry — the posh wine country restaurant where Newsom infamously dined with lobbyists during last year’s pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom did not extend extra pandemic sick leave, despite lobbying by unions to do so, nor provide “hero pay” for frontline workers. He vetoed labor-backed legislation to raise the rate of pay that workers get while out on family leave. And despite expanding Medi-Cal health insurance to cover more undocumented immigrants with lower incomes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888480/if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care\">he has not established a “single payer” health care system\u003c/a> — something pushed by nurses unions that backed his 2018 election and gave him $1 million to defeat the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Labor unions, real estate moguls, tech titans — interest groups that lobby at the state Capitol often try to sway elections. That’s nothing new. But the attempt to remove Newsom presented them with an unusually stark opportunity to try to wield influence: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">Donors could give the governor unlimited sums of campaign money\u003c/a> for an election held \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">the same week Newsom began signing and vetoing bills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turbo-charged something that was already supercharged,” said Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. “It is this perfect storm highlighting for us how money works in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, the job of the most powerful decision-maker in California only comes before voters every four years. Regular elections in November take place after the governor has concluded signing bills for the year — and the law limits how much money donors can give. But those conventions didn’t apply to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you start from donation-land and you drive to decision-land, that road used to be a lot longer. But thanks to the recall it’s half a block away,” Levinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For some donors, the unusual election was just another way to give to someone they already supported: About 260 donors who contributed to the anti-recall committee also gave Newsom a total of $1 million this year for his 2022 reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has until October 10 to finish signing the roughly 800 bills lawmakers sent him this year. His spokesperson Erin Mellon said, “The governor’s decisions, always grounded in sound policy and good governance, are made in the best interest of the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key donors who contributed to the $71 million campaign war chest that helped Newsom keep his job. Click on any of the options listed below to learn how much each group donated and what bills they’re invested in the outcome of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#entertainment\">\u003cstrong>Entertainment industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tech\">\u003cstrong>Big Tech\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tribes\">\u003cstrong>Native American tribes\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#realtors\">\u003cstrong>Real estate industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#labor\">\u003cstrong>Labor unions\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891028 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The stories-high, bright-white letters of the Hollywood sign are seen from the ground directly below, filling the entire frame.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-157554504-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hollywood sign seen on Dec. 4, 2012, in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"entertainment\">\u003c/a>Hollywood: $3.9 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/union-backed-california-bill-offers-new-film-and-tv-tax-break\">entertainment industry lobbied for expanded tax credits\u003c/a> last year, but legislation never reached the governor’s desk. This year, show biz executives donated at least $3.9 million to help Newsom fight the recall as their lobbyists scored new industry tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That generosity included a $3 million check in May from Netflix founder Reed Hastings, making him Newsom’s biggest individual donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Newsom signed legislation as part of the state budget that gives \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB144\">an additional $330 million in tax credits to film and television productions\u003c/a>. The credits have not yet been awarded, but \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/biz/news/california-netflix-film-tax-credit-1235046051/\">Netflix was the biggest winner\u003c/a> in an earlier round, scoring $43 million for three productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These tax breaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/21/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-bolster-states-film-and-television-industry-creating-good-jobs-and-promoting-a-diverse-workforce/\">Newsom said when he signed them into law\u003c/a>, will “fuel the California Comeback through thousands of good jobs right here in the Golden State.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next month, Deadline reported, \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2021/08/gavin-newsom-recall-jeffrey-katzenberg-hollywood-1234810924/\">Hollywood bigwigs hosted a virtual fundraiser \u003c/a>to help Newsom fight the recall. Campaign finance records show that in August director Steven Spielberg gave the anti-recall campaign $25,000, Disney Studios executive Alan Horn and his wife gave $50,000, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the veteran film producer who recently founded a tech company, gave $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katzenberg, in a recent New York Times podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-jeffrey-katzenberg.html\">called the effort to oust Newsom a “nonsensical, idiotic recall” \u003c/a>and said governors across the country have faced extraordinary challenges in managing the pandemic. Newsom, he said, has “actually done a decent job, given the circumstances.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789507 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of a mobile phone screen, with app icons for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/cellphone-1920-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tech\">\u003c/a>Tech: $3.8 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Relationship status between Newsom and the tech industry? It’s complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executives who had a history of supporting Democrats, including Newsom, turned heads when they \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/recode/22245414/gavin-newsom-recall-silicon-valley-money\">started donating to the campaign to throw the governor out of office\u003c/a>, saying they were fed up with his pandemic management. Their money helped gather enough signatures to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/voting-california-recall-election/\">put the recall on the ballot\u003c/a> and their Silicon Valley fame gave the GOP-led campaign a bipartisan patina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech investor David Sacks — who gave Newsom nearly $60,000 in 2018 only to spend more than $100,000 trying to oust him this year — said the recall was worth it even though Newsom won in a landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at when Newsom relaxed the lockdowns, it was at every step of the recall process,” Sacks said recently on \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/R76THi_c90o?t=1185\">his “All In” podcast\u003c/a>. “And he got the education unions to stand down on the issue of school reopenings, I think because he was facing this recall. So … the recall was worth it, just for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other tech titans helped defend Newsom — to the tune of at least $3.8 million. That includes $750,000 from Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; $400,000 from Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs; $500,000 from DoorDash executives and their spouses; $100,000 from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; $100,000 from Airbnb; and $75,000 from Uber and its CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom doesn’t have a lot of tech-related legislation to evaluate this year. Most of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-social-media-regulations-2021/\">the bills internet companies lobbied against\u003c/a> stalled early in the year and never reached his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lawmakers did \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB286\">send him a bill meant to crack down on food delivery apps\u003c/a> such as DoorDash and Uber Eats by prohibiting them from marking up the price of food they deliver and requiring them to reveal any service fees to customers. Tech trade associations oppose it, arguing that fee arrangements between restaurants and delivery services should remain confidential. Newsom has yet to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He already signed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-legislature-bills-passed-2021/\">legislation targeting warehouses like Amazon’s\u003c/a>, where workers had complained of skipping bathroom breaks and safety precautions under pressure to meet quick delivery times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two years ago, Newsom signed sweeping legislation meant to curb the gig economy by limiting the use of independent contractors — a move that put him at odds with donors such as Uber and DoorDash.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"tribes\">\u003c/a>Native American tribes: $3.8 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several Native American tribes that run casinos donated a combined $3.8 million to help Newsom fight the recall as they pushed to expand gambling in California. Tribes are behind a proposed ballot initiative that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2819-0029A1%29.pdf\">would allow sports betting at their casinos\u003c/a> — if voters approve and if the governor sanctions it through compacts with individual tribes. The tribes’ proposal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/08/31/sports-gambling-giants-back-new-online-betting-initiative-in-california-1390581\">one of a few different sports betting measures\u003c/a> that could be on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Legislature this year, tribes lobbied for bills to expand recognition of Native Americans and change how the state and tribal governments work together on issues related to child welfare, foster children and firefighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/on-native-american-day-governor-newsom-signs-package-of-legislation-to-advance-equity-and-inclusion-support-california-native-communities/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/on-native-american-day-governor-newsom-signs-package-of-legislation-to-advance-equity-and-inclusion-support-california-native-communities/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">signed the bills on Native American Day\u003c/a> this past September, including legislation to replace the Columbus Day holiday in state courts with Native American Day on Sept. 24; \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/religion-california-san-francisco-sacramento-gavin-newsom-d6dd0f163797de25cb38ab8419504afb?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0cf142936b-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-0cf142936b-148328085&mc_cid=0cf142936b&mc_eid=304e5f7b04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://apnews.com/article/religion-california-san-francisco-sacramento-gavin-newsom-d6dd0f163797de25cb38ab8419504afb?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0cf142936b-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-0cf142936b-148328085&mc_cid=0cf142936b&mc_eid=304e5f7b04\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">to build a memorial to Native Americans at the state Capitol\u003c/a> where a statue of a missionary was toppled amid protests against racism; and to establish recommendations permitting Native American students to wear cultural or spiritual items at high school graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s relationship with Native American tribes predates the recall. During his first year as governor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article231693103.html\">Newsom apologized on behalf of the state\u003c/a> for “the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect California inflicted on tribes.” And he established a Truth and Healing Council to clarify historical records about the relationship between tribes and the state — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">efforts his office described as first in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11891029 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden facade with scaffolding towers over the older, more residential buildings.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1235482342-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New building construction is seen in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles Sept. 24, 2021. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"realtors\">\u003c/a>Real estate: $5.3 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Developers, real estate investors and realtors gave at least $5.3 million to help Newsom fight the recall as their industry pushed legislation to make it easier to build more homes in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not building enough housing at all income levels in the state of California,” Newsom said last week as he signed more than two dozen bills aimed at boosting development. “We recognize that we’ve got to make up for decades and decades of … that neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the second batch of housing bills Newsom has signed since the recall. The first included two controversial measures that will allow duplexes in neighborhoods zoned for single-family houses and let cities approve buildings with up to 10 apartments in areas near public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics suing the state over the new law allowing 10-unit apartment buildings dubbed it a “birthday present to developers.” Supporters argue that building more homes will help Californians who struggle to afford rent in the state’s tight housing markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s shortage of affordable homes has been a focus of Newsom’s since he ran for governor in 2018. He campaigned on a goal to build 3.5 million homes by 2025, but so far has not come close. Newsom said the new laws he signed this year should help spur construction of 40,000 new housing units, plus 44,000 units and treatment beds for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not all developers are on Newsom’s side. Geoff Palmer, who owns a company that has built many Southern California apartment buildings, was one of the biggest donors to the effort to recall Newsom. He gave $200,000 to help qualify the recall for the ballot and more than $1 million to support the candidacy of Republican radio host Larry Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888489\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold up a sign that reads, \"Medicare for All! Defeat the Recall! Healthy California Now.\"' width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/depori9ofucejcwer-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists, including those from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), demonstrate in Sacramento on June 15, 2021, to push Gov. Gavin Newsom to enact single-payer health care and defend him from the Republican-driven recall campaign. “I expect him to lead on California accomplishing single-payer and being an example for the rest of the country,” said Sal Rosselli, president of NUHW. \u003ccite>(Angela Hart/California Healthline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"labor\">\u003c/a>Labor unions: $25.7 million\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Labor unions are the elephant in the room when it comes to money Newsom raised to fight the recall. Organized labor donated at least $25.7 million — or more than one-third of the total the governor raised to keep his job. Unions, of course, have deep ties to the Democratic Party and a stake in nearly every aspect of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One labor leader cited Newsom’s actions to let child care workers unionize, provide extra sick leave during the pandemic and reverse cuts to in-home caregivers as reasons they put so much money and effort into helping him win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SEIU members will fight to protect the significant gains for workers and communities that we secured in partnership with our pro-worker Governor,” April Verrett, president of SEIU California, said in a statement after the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU donated $6.6 million to the anti-recall campaign and deployed thousands of its members to knock on doors and call voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the union, which represents nursing home workers, is waiting to see whether Newsom will sign a package of bills it pushed to strengthen nursing home regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Newsom signed a pay hike for prison guards, whose union donated $1.8 million to fight the recall. And, amid soaring tax revenues, he signed a state budget that gives public schools more money than ever. Teachers gave about $2.4 million to defeat the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction workers gave nearly $7 million to the anti-recall campaign. Newsom pushed this year for more spending on high-speed rail, which would have been a boon to construction jobs, but was unable to convince lawmakers to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The governor did not do everything labor unions wanted. He vetoed legislation that would have allowed farmworkers more ways to vote in union elections, triggering a protest in which they marched to the French Laundry — the posh wine country restaurant where Newsom infamously dined with lobbyists during last year’s pandemic restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom did not extend extra pandemic sick leave, despite lobbying by unions to do so, nor provide “hero pay” for frontline workers. He vetoed labor-backed legislation to raise the rate of pay that workers get while out on family leave. And despite expanding Medi-Cal health insurance to cover more undocumented immigrants with lower incomes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888480/if-newsom-survives-the-recall-the-health-care-unions-who-backed-him-expect-a-push-for-single-payer-health-care\">he has not established a “single payer” health care system\u003c/a> — something pushed by nurses unions that backed his 2018 election and gave him $1 million to defeat the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters data reporter Jeremia Kimelman contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State and federal lawmakers plan to introduce legislation and hold at least one oversight hearing in response to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890211/dangerous-air-as-california-burns-america-breathes-toxic-smoke\">Dangerous Air\u003c/a>,” an investigation from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11132/npr-and-california-public-radio-stations-collaborate-on-a-statewide-regional-newsroom\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a> — a collaboration of NPR, KQED and 16 public radio stations across the state — which showed that smoke from western wildfires is choking vast swaths of the country, from Los Angeles to Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890211\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Leadphoto-1020x680.png\"]“This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years: As wildfires become more frequent due to climate change, the health of our communities will suffer,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara), who chairs the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will have a hearing on wildfires, smoke pollution, and commercial logging practices that may be making the problem worse. This is a matter of public health, environmental justice, and Congress has no option but to act,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation analyzed federal satellite imagery collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Carried out in partnership with Stanford University’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanfordecholab.com/\">Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab\u003c/a>, it revealed a startling increase in the number of days residents were breathing smoke in cities across America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José, which Khanna represents, residents breathed wildfire smoke an average of 45 days a year between 2016 and 2020, the investigation found, a 400% increase from the period between 2009 to 2013.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1442965156598845440\u003cbr>\n“We are living and breathing the climate crisis,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1442965156598845440\">tweeted Rep. Jason Crow\u003c/a> (D-Colorado). He noted our investigation showed his suburban Denver district was “seeing an average of 2 additional weeks of wildfire smoke per year — 14 more days of increased risk for asthma, respiratory disease, and premature births.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Santa Clara)\"]‘This investigation confirms what we’ve known for years.’[/pullquote]Lawmakers from both parties said the investigation provided further evidence for a comprehensive government response. They advocated for better forest management, including prescribed burns, which experts say are crucial to stemming serious wildfires that send dangerous smoke into the skies. And there are proposals for the immediate term — including stronger protections for workers and the creation of smoke shelters, where people with elevated health risks can escape the dangerous air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where residents are most affected, Assemblymember Luz Rivas, a Democrat from Los Angeles who chairs the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, said she plans to introduce a legislative package to address wildfire smoke impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential area of focus would be increasing protections for outdoor workers and standardizing when schoolchildren are not let out for recess to avoid being exposed to dangerous air. “A lot of my constituents are worried about their children and long-term health effects,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas’s proposal is one of many that seeks to minimize the immediate health impacts of widespread smoke, recognizing it will take many years — and colossal amounts of money — to address the root causes.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Forest management and climate change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Forests across the western U.S. are overgrown, filled with bone-dry vegetation that fuels catastrophic fires. The Golden State saw its most active wildfire season in history last year, with 4.3 million acres burned, nearly 10,500 structures damaged or destroyed and 33 deaths. Over 2 million acres have burned so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale)\"]‘The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts.’[/pullquote]Both Democrats and Republicans said the investigation showed more aggressive forest management is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The short- and long-term [solutions] come down to management of the lands where the fire starts,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), whose district in rural Northern California includes areas where residents breathe smoke three months a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that thinning forestlands has gotten harder due to increased regulations. Projects can take years due to lengthy environmental reviews and the bureaucratic approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest management does not mean “clear cutting” or removing all trees, LaMalfa said, adding that he and other lawmakers have been advocating for a variety of targeted management techniques, including forest thinning and prescribed burning. The California Legislature passed bills this year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/09/16/prescribed-burns-could-help-reduce-californias-wildfires-a-new-bill-could-help-make-planned-fires-more-frequent/\">change liability laws\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/20210910-sen-dodd-lauds-passage-controlled-burn-insurance-fund\">create a $20 million insurance liability fund\u003c/a> to encourage more prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low- and moderate-intensity fire is a natural part of the forest ecosystem. But a century of aggressive forest suppression has snuffed out these so-called “good fires,” leading to a dangerous buildup of undergrowth. Fire scientists say state and federal governments need to substantially increase their forest management efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887158\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_7268-1020x680.jpg\"]For the government’s part, the ambition is there, but execution still lags. Last August, California entered into an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to each perform fire prevention work on 500,000 acres annually in the state by 2025. The Forest Service remains well short of that goal, treating about 120,000 acres in the last year. Cal Fire was unable to provide up-to-date numbers on its progress toward the target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also advocate for more aggressive action on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Build Back Better Act — a $3.5 trillion, 2,000-plus page bill that captures many of President Biden’s policy priorities — includes several ambitious climate change proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, currently being negotiated in Congress, includes a $150 billion program that would pay utility companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It’s unclear whether that provision will make it into the final legislation, however, as it has received pushback from Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat whose vote is seen as crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire scientists say climate change has set the stage for wildfires to burn out of control in recent years. 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Gavin Newsom aims to change that. Nicknamed the “Momnibus” bill, it would collect more details about pregnancy-related deaths, diversify the experts looking at that data and require them to recommend ways to reduce racial gaps. It also would expand access to doulas and midwives, whose presence can drive better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want to address the issue, it is going to take a serious investment and resources, whether that means providing every Black mother a doula or really investigating what’s happening when Black mothers die,” said Jen Flory, policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, which supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom backed past efforts to improve care for Black pregnant people by requiring implicit bias training for health care workers involved in perinatal care, and he’s made support for women and new birthing people a priority for his administration. But his Department of Finance opposes the bill because the $6.7 million price tag for expanded data collection wasn’t included in the state budget. Newsom hasn’t said whether he’ll sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among wealthy nations, the United States ranks poorly in death rates of birthing people, and California’s effort is part of a national push to improve outcomes. Back in 2020, Democratic legislators on Capitol Hill introduced the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, which received the support of then-Senator Kamala Harris. But the bill never got a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, President Joe Biden lauded California’s efforts to reduce deaths, and in April he recognized Black Maternal Health Week.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThere are two ways to track deaths: The mortality rate for birthing people, used globally, counts deaths during pregnancy and within 42 days of giving birth. 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