Bill Proposes Reparations For Families Displaced by Dodger Stadium

LOS ANGELES, CA — While fans flocked to Dodger Stadium Thursday for the team’s home opener, a local legislator is pushing a bill proposing reparations for families and people who were displaced from their homes for the development of the iconic stadium in the 1950s. The bill aims to correct “an injustice” that displaced families and has “lingered” in the shadows of L.A. history, according to Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D-Los Angeles. Last week, Carrillo announced the “Chavez Ravine Accountability Act,” or AB 1950, during a news conference at Elysian Park’s Los Desterrados (The Uprooted) Historical Marker. “In the 1950s, the vibrant communities of Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop were home to mostly Mexican American, as well as Italian American and Chinese American, families (who) saw an upheaval as they were uprooted and displaced in the name of progress with false promises of housing,” Carrillo said. A representative for the Dodgers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The communities were later called Chavez Ravine, named after Julian Chavez, a rancher who served as assistant mayor, city councilman and eventually as one of the county’s first supervisors. Carrillo added, “Families were promised a return to better housing, but...