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
Underlying 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...