Hey friends, it's Anne.

Racial justice and civil rights movements often seem to begin in cities.

But right now, in rural areas and farm communities across the country, something new is happening.

Young, black, and brown farmers are reclaiming land, and they're linking food sovereignty and sustainability with equal rights. They're

growing vegetables and justice. Stay with us and we'll meet some of them.

Music Stay with us and we'll meet some of them. Wisconsin Public Radio The first time people talked about reparations for slavery, they talked about land.

40 acres on a mule.

Something that was really powerful that I learned recently is that in 1865, when General Sherman met with about 30 black clergy

to find out what it was that they needed after the war ended.

They said, and I quote,

we need homes and the grounds beneath them

So we can plant fruit trees and say to our children

These are ours

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

That dream of owning land, growing food to feed your family and your neighbors,

maybe it's not so old-fashioned even today.

What if reparations were finally paid right now as land?

Would anyone want it?

We'll meet Leah Panama.

Land really is the basis of everything.

Without land, we can't build our homes.

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