That’s due in part to “deeply embedded biases, double standards ... set up created widening rifts in the wealth of Black and white land grants over the ensuing decades. The 1890 law allowed ...

Examples include the Espys, a Black family who was given a pittance by an all-white jury after their land in Vero Beach, Fla., was seized in 1942 through eminent domain. In 1965, the Los Angeles ...

In 1957, Silas White, a Black entrepreneur purchased a valuable plot of land in Santa Monica, CA. White wanted to transform “the space into the Ebony Beach Club, a place where the local Black ...

Donor funding helped the Zimbabwean government buy land from white commercial farmers, enabling about 50,000 Black farmers to receive land. But the programme was ultimately underfunded and fell ...

But Morgan Jerkins’s latest book, “Wandering in Strange Lands,” is a mesmerizing reminder that this divide between Black and white is a false binary. On the premise of reconnecting her ...