California bill seeks to provide reparations for families displaced from land where Dodgers Stadium was built

A California state lawmaker wants to provide reparations for displaced families in Los Angeles who lived in the area where the Dodgers Stadium currently stands. In a press release, Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, D., announced she had introduced a bill, AB 1950, that “aims to address the historical injustice faced by those living in the Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, a predominately Latino community.” Chavez Ravine was established in the early 1900s and named after Julian Chavez, a former rancher, assistant mayor, city council member, and L.A. County’s first supervisor in the mid-1800s. Spanning over 300 acres, the land area was “home to generations of predominantly Mexican Americans” in the 1950s. Chinese and Italian residents occupied the area as well. Carrillo explained in the press release that Los Angeles officials acquired the land through eminent domain to build public housing on Chavez Ravine in the 1950s, which displaced thousands. However, city officials later abandoned the project and sold the land to a private developer who built Dodgers Stadium there, which opened in 1962. “Families were promised a return to better housing, but instead, they were left destitute,” Carrillo said. REPARATIONS EXPERT SAYS SAN FRANCISCO’S APOLOGY TO BLACK RESIDENTS ‘DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING’...