February 1, 2021 in Uncategorized

How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land

How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land

The Atlantic 560K subscribers Over the course of the 20th century, black Americans have lost approximately 12 million acres of land. This mass land dispossession—a war waged by deed of title, which has affected 98 percent of black farmers—can only be called theft, says Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk II in a new documentary. The Scott family, from Mound Bayou, Mississippi, can trace their land ownership back to 1938, when the family’s agriculturally gifted patriarch began amassing more than 1,000 acres. By the late ‘80s, the Scotts had all but lost their land entirely. What happened in those intervening years

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February 1, 2021 in Uncategorized

19 Black families buy 96 acres to create safe space

19 Black families buy 96 acres to create safe space

19 black families have purchased nearly 100 acres of land in rural Georgia to create a safe space for black people.

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