This Land is My Land by Sanford School @ Duke published on 2021-03-10T02:37:40Z The promise of “40 acres and a mule” officially was made in 1865. The U.S. government decided that newly freed African Americans should have a plot of land to call their own. Three years earlier, when 90% of African Americans still were enslaved, the federal government enacted the Homestead Act and started offering free 160 acre plots of land to settlers, mostly white Americans. A tale of two promises made by the government – one kept, one broken. What happened, and what does this have to do with the existing wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans? Find out in this episode. The Ways & Means podcast series “The Arc of Justice – From Here to Equality” is inspired by the research of the economist William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He has written an award-winning book with the folklorist and arts consultant A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century. Resources, Credits, Transcript: https://waysandmeansshow.org/2021/03/09/s6e2-this-land-is-my-land/ Genre Learning
