August 28, 2019

The cover story of this month’s The Atlantic magazine is a must-read article by Vann Newkirk titled The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.” It chronicles the decades of systematic corruption that defrauded black farmers and their families out of millions of acres of prime farmland in Mississippi and across many states in the Deep South.

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