Santa Monica pays $350,000 settlement to family of black entrepreneur decades after unlawful seizure

Through Jeroslyn JoVonn November 26, 2025 Santa Monica will pay $350,000 to Silas White’s descendants for land illegally seized in the 1950s. The city of Santa Monica has agreed to a $350,000 settlement with the descendants of a black entrepreneur whose plans to open a black beach club were derailed when his land was wrongfully […]