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George Fatheree

George Fatheree is the founder and CEO of ORO Impact, a firm that helps companies offer employee housing benefits to improve productivity, retention, and financial wellness. He’s also the founder of the Black Land Loss Narrative Archive Project, an effort to collect, preserve, and amplify stories of Black land loss. Fatheree led the legal team responsible for the return of Bruce’s Beach, the first time in U.S. history that property was returned to a Black family.

When my wife and I moved back to the Los Angeles area in 2000, we bought a three-bedroom Spanish-style home two blocks south of the Altadena/Pasadena border, and just a few blocks from the neighborhoods lost in the Eaton fire this past January. It was a special home for us: our first child was born there, and we loved starting our family in such a racially and socio-economically diverse residential community.
During the summer of 1910, W. Ashbie Hawkins, an African American lawyer, purchased a home at 1834 McCulloh Street, an affluent—and all-white—neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. He rented the home to his law partner (and brother-in-law), George McMechen, an African American graduate of Yale Law School.
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