Vann Newkirk II in the Great Land Robbery, September 2019 issue of The Atlantic:
A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America. They have lost 12 million acres over the past century. But even that statement falsely consigns the losses to long-ago history. In fact, the losses mostly occurred within living memory, from the 1950s onward.
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 