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The Role Land Plays in Our Social Movements, Neighborhood Funders Group 2020 Convening

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.

Join experts from the Inclusive Community Cooperative to learn how your land trust can support indigenous methods of stewardship.

You may know what race you are, but how would you prove it if someone disagreed with you? The fact is, race is a social and political construct that has evolved in fascinating and often confusing ways over the centuries.