
On President’s Day morning, a middle-aged, white surfer hassled two 24-year-old Black surfers in the line-up at the Manhattan Beach Pier. He told them to go surf in El Porto. Then, more pointedly, he told them to go surf Bruce’s Beach, a Blacks only beach in the 1920s and more recently, the site of Black Lives Matter protests

Redondo Beach is on the cusp of the biggest changes since King Harbor was completed in 1966. The 56-acre AES Power Plant, the Waterfront and the Galleria are all poised to redeveloped in the next few years. The council elected on March 2 will decide what the new developments look like.


