African-American Land Tenure and Sustainable Development: Eradicating Poverty and Building Intergenerational Wealth in the Black Belt Region

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By Jerry Pennick and Monica Rainge

"African-American land ownership has helped guide and support the march toward freedom and sustainability for generations, even in the face of physical harm, death, and an unjust justice system that has often conspired to dispossess the African-American community of this critical asset and power base.

This article provides a framework for developing solutions to the problem of systemic poverty in the rural South, with land access and sustainable development forming the key component of those solutions." Read entire article