Discussing lack of land ownership among Black Americans

Published December 27, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST

As Brea Baker writes in her recent book, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, she is "reconstructing a world where Black people thrive and relish in the fruit of our labor.” — As Brea Baker writes in her recent book, *Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership,* she is "reconstructing a world where Black people thrive and relish in the fruit of our labor.”

This episode originally aired on Aug. 12, 2024.

When Brea Baker’s grandfather died in 2019, he told her, “Don’t sell the land.”

It was land that was fought for by generations of Black Americans and belonged to the Lumbee Tribe for 14,000 years before them.

As Baker writes in her recent book, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, she is "reconstructing a world where Black people thrive and relish in the fruit of our labor.”

Today, less than one percent of farmland is owned by Black Americans.

We’re diving into why that is and how that land was stolen.

Guest:

Brea Baker, author of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

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