The Pursuit of Black Land Justice with Brea Baker

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Today's History Story: Georgetown University Sold Us What hasn't America stolen from us? Our bodies, our culture, and the land that grounds a nation we've built. We refuse to accept this. For centuries, we've reclaimed our bodies and our culture. Now, we want our land. Reparations are due, people. Land reparations. And today's guest knows plenty about that. Brea Baker is a freedom fighter and writer who has been working on the frontlines for almost a decade. She also just dropped her debut book called “Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership.” In it, she gets into the history of one of the U.S.’s first sins: stealing and hoarding land. To learn more about Brea's work, visit breabaker.com. Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Darren Wallace. The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, and Amber Davis. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Lance John with Gifted Sounds edits and engineers the show. BHY’s executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, we're talking about land theft and land reparations on Black History Year.
0:04.7	Stay tuned. Throughout history, the land has been a source of power, identity, and survival for black communities. After centuries of ecological
0:25.1	cultivation and agricultural innovation, our ancestors brought valuable knowledge of the land
0:30.6	to the harsh wilderness of the Americas.
0:33.0	And they and their knowledge built the United States from the ground up,
0:37.0	but from the broken promise of 40 acres in a mule,
0:40.0	to the oppressive system of Sheer-Crobbing,
0:42.0	and now the rising tide of gentrification,
0:45.2	many of us still don't have land to call our own.
0:48.7	I don't know about y'all, but I think it's about time we talk about reparations,
0:53.2	land reparations.
0:55.3	I'm Deerem from Bush Black and you're listening to Black History.
0:58.8	You know, in many circles it's said that owning land is the key to wealth of freedom
1:08.6	but I want to challenge that idea just a bit I mean is true liberation even possible in a system that modifies land and
1:17.2	pushes out the most vulnerable a system that's currently criminalizing
1:21.0	houselessness after creating the conditions for it.
1:25.0	Yeah folks, we're going there today.
1:27.5	So to explore this and much more, we brought in someone deeply entrenched in the trenches of his work, the incredible Bria Baker.
1:37.0	Bria is a freedom fighter and writer who's been on the front lines for almost a decade.
1:42.0	She just released her debut book, Rooted, the American
1:46.6	legacy of land theft and the modern movement for black land ownership. In it, she digs into the history of one of America's original and ongoing sins,
1:57.0	land theft.
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