This week’s NYT 1619 podcast episode: “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2” (Total time length: 36:38)150 years after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of dispossession. The Provosts, who trace their family to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this...
This week’s NYT 1619 podcast episode: “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2” (Total time length: 36:38)150 years after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of dispossession. The Provosts, who trace their family to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this...
This week’s NYT 1619 podcast episode: “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2” (Total time length: 36:38)150 years after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of dispossession. The Provosts, who trace their family to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this...