LOS ANGELES — Kavon Ward vividly remembers the sunny day in September of 2021 when she won. When Black people won.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had traveled to the overwhelmingly white city of Manhattan Beach to sign legislation that would return two lots of prime real estate to the family of a Black couple who lost it in a racist act of government seizure almost a century ago.
Ward, whose grassroots reparations movement had led to the legislation, put a fist in the air.
