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Share your stories on video, transform personal memories into collective restoration. Every story is both an act of resistance and a return of value—reminding audiences that while land can be taken, legacy cannot.
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The Black Land Loss Narrative Archive will form an invaluable resource for scholars, authors, historians, educators, storytellers, policymakers, and change agents who wrestle with issues of restitution, reparations, racial inequity in home ownership, and the racial wealth gap.
Through documenting stories of Black land loss, the archive will help to demonstrate the magnitude of what Black families have lost and will contribute to national dialogue to encourage paths to restitution, rebuilding, and healing.
WHAT WAS STOLEN, STILL SPEAKS
George Fatheree III with Tavis Smiley
Noted attorney and social impact entrepreneur, George Fatheree III, who represented the family in the historic Bruce's Beach case, talks about the work of the Black Land Loss Narrative Archive Project and how Black families can protect themselves from land dispossession.
MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century
enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs
Over more than a century, the stoneware pottery has become a powerful representation of the artistic history of enslaved people.
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Disclaimer: The Black Land Loss Narrative Archive Project is not offering to, and does not, provide any legal support or legal advice. Our focus is to ensure that stories of Black land loss are not lost or forgotten and that they can be preserved and amplified to inform our national dialogue around issues of race, justice, restitution, and reparations.
