The Conversation

The Conversation

For the September cover story, Vann R. Newkirk II wrote about how nearly 1 million black farmers were robbed of their livelihood. Mr. Newkirk’s poignant story about the precipitous loss of African American land sheds light on an issue that has affected—and devastated—generations of families throughout the South. The loss of this land, also called “heirs’ property,” has denied these families the most valuable and stable source of generational wealth.