Black Land Matters: The Symposium

They promised us 40 acres and a mule for a reason. Alongside KXAN anchor Jennifer Sanders, city of Austin homeless strategy officer David Gray and community displacement prevention officer Nefertitti Jackmon, and Black Austin Tours founder Javier Wallace, this Housing Department-sponsored, free-to-the-public roundtable welcomes Shirley Sherrod – who co-founded the Georgia land trust nonprofit New Communities – and Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile to discuss the interplay between racial and economic equity, and how land ownership is crucial Black self-determination. – Carys Anderson