What does the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), one of the largest pension funds in the United States, have to do with the Reconstruction-era Freedmen’s Bureau? What does forgery have to do with gentrification, or color-coded maps with closed fire stations? The processes by which Black Americans have been dispossessed of land and property are tangled, insidious, and enduring. Our discussion will expose the ways in which this theft takes place in both rural and urban contexts and consider effective methods to resist.
Vann R. Newkirk II, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of “The Great Land Robbery: The Shameful Story of How 1 million Black families have been ripped from their farms”
Travis Hill, Chief, Real Estate Enforcement Unit at New York State Office of the Attorney General
Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kimberley Johnson (Moderator), Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
This event is part of NYU Gallatin’s Black History Month programming.
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