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The season of racial reckoning continues. In the most recent episodes of Radical Imagination
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, we focus on the growing movement in our country to reconnect Indigenous and Black people with land and property that was stolen from them or their ancestors.
In the episode Land Back
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, we speak with Clyde Prout III, chairman of the Colfax Todd’s Valley Consolidated Tribe in California, who tells the remarkable story of how his tribe reclaimed land, stolen by the government nearly half a century ago. Native people were violently displaced from their ancestral homelands throughout US history, as the land was stolen and sold to private owners, made “public” in the name of preserving natural resources, or set aside for agriculture and recreation. We also hear from Jeff Darlington, the director of the Placer Land Trust, about the partnership that made it possible for the tribe to take back their land, restore it through traditional cultural and ecological knowledge, and achieve critical environmental goals.
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On the Land Justice
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episode, we speak with Kavon Ward – a poet, an activist, and the founder of 'Where is My Land?' – who helped win a landmark victory around Justice for Bruce's Beach in Southern California. It is well documented that the horrendous theft of Black-owned land has happened on a large scale across the country, since before the end of slavery. A leader in today's fight for reparations, Kavon talks about her work and other grassroots leaders, and their steadfast advocacy explicitly focused on getting the land back to the Bruce family – land that was stolen from the family back in the 1920s.
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These two episodes exemplify the type of radical imagination and extraordinary leadership required to address the racial sins of our history and repair the associated harms.
Let them be a model.
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