Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at 'black commons' and collective ownership?
- Written by Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
Former slaves harvesting for their own profit.Corbis via Getty ImagesUnderlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental inequity in wealth, land and power that has circumscribed black lives since the end of slavery in the U.S.
The “40 acres and a mule” promised to formerly enslaved Africans never...