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This event is a collaboration between the Howard University School of Business, the Howard University School of Law, and Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ to explore a critical and under-studied component of the racial wealth gap: property.

Experts that real estate is the steadiest and safest way to build wealth in America. And yet, African Americans continue to be from their homes and land. For example, the last century has seen a in the amount of black-owned agricultural land, partly as a result of the heirs property land ownership system, which has been exploited to force and remove black families from their property. And heirs property is hardly the only example of the pernicious impacts of property rights insecurity. Here in the District, gentrification is African American residents at some of the highest rates in the country. Nationally, stark racial in will-making are leaving residents unable to access aid and rebuild their homes after disasters.

This event will use heirs property and black land loss as a jumping off point to talk about property as a key component of building generational wealth.

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Speakers Include:

President and Chief Operating Officer, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½

11th Hour Fellow, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½
Staff Writer at the Atlantic
Author of the Atlantic Magazine cover story,

Professor, Texas A&M School of Law and Principal Drafter of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

2017 National Fellow, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½
Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University

Chief Executive Officer, Grounded Solutions Network

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