‘Just About All of Our Land’: Report Shows Black Farmers Lost $326B Worth of Land from Dispossession and Discriminatory Policies
Black people had the largest amount of farmland they would ever own in the U.S. after the Civil War, but decade after decade, that land has been stripped through discrimination policies and theft, leading to hundreds of billions of dollars in economic loss in the 20th century, a new report shows. According to the report…