This Land is My Land

Hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa finally get around to what they've been waiting on: reparations. This go-round, they focus on the case for reparations as rooted in the history of land and housing policy in the United States. From the murder of the Walker family in Hickman, Kentucky to the use of eminent domain to seize the Espy fruit groves in Vero Beach, Florida to the recent struggle for justice for the descendants of Linnentown in their home base of Athens, GA, the hosts somberly recount the various kinds of land theft perpetrated by mobs, swindlers, judges and local governments since the antebellum era. Hip Hop has weighed in on the reparations debate, too, and the hosts allow the music T.I. and Killer Mike to make their respective cases for a past-due payout. Hip hop artist and city councilman elect Jecorey Arthur joins the hosts to make his own case for reparations as well as a Black agenda for local governments.

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