EXCLUSIVE: The century-old story of Bruce’s Beach, which has been garnering national attention amid an effort to return the land to the owners’ descendants, will be subject of a scripted TV series.
The project, from Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, is in development at Amazon Studios.Bruce’s Beach was a beach resort in the city of Manhattan Beach, CA, near Los Angeles, in the early 1900s.
Owned by and operated for African Americans, Bruce’s Beach provided opportunities for the Black community that were not available at other beach areas because of racial segregation.
The series plans to explore the dynamic life of the Bruce’s Beach community in the spirit of Black livelihood and leisure, as
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