The Great Land Robbery
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/
How Southern Farmers were Forced from their Land, and their Heritage
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-southern-black-farmers-were-forced-from-their-land-and-their-heritage
Selected Reading and Resource List on Reparations
Anthologies:
Brooks, Roy L., ed., When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Martin, Michael T. and Marilyn Yaquinto, eds., Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and their Legacies. Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2007.
Winbush, Raymond A., ed., Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Books:
Bittker, Boris I. The Case for Black Reparations. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
Darity, William A. and A Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Franke, Katherine. Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019
Robinson, Randall. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. New York: Plume Books, 2001.
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O. Reconsidering Reparations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Neiman, Susan. Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Thompson, Janna. Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Justice. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.
Articles:
Coates, Ta’Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations,” Atlantic Magazine, June 2014.
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, “What is Owed,” New York Times Magazine, June 30, 2020