![]() This is why, as of 2017, white households were twice as likely as Black households to receive an inheritance. Today, Black Americans, far removed from slavery and Jim Crow, continue to be handed the economic misfortune of their forebears. More than two dozen Black journalists, writers, and thinkers contributed to this initiative, myself included. Lee: When it was released, The 1619 Project took up an entire issue of the Times Magazine. ![]() ![]() But even as a federal government decided that Black people were undeserving of any restitution, it was bestowing millions of acres in the West on white Americans under the Homestead Act while also enticing white foreigners to immigrate with the offer of free land.
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