How Black Americans were robbed of their land

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 short. (Source: The Atlantic)

For more, read Newkirk’s article in The Atlantic, “The Great Land Robbery” – www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/