Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 20, 2025
Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.
Land-based reparations are also a form of 
