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Give Us Back Our Lands: When Black America Demands Reparation
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Juneteenth celebration in Los Angeles, Friday, June 19, 2020. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and secure the freedom of all slaves, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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By: Anne Lamotte
From Texas to Kentucky, their ancestors lost their lands.
More and more black people today are challenging the way the American government has pre-empted them and they are demanding redress.
California is the first state to initiate the process.
For the first time in the country's history, it has just returned land seized nearly a century ago from an African-American couple.
It is also the first state to set up a group of experts whose first report is due out in early June 2022: who should be compensated and how?
A debate that gives hope to hundreds of families across the country.
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"Give us back our lands: when black America demands reparation", a great report by Anne Lamotte.
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