Investigative series '40 Acres and a Lie' explores the history of a government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back
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On the next Charlotte Talks, we hear from the reporters who worked to reveal how dozens of Black families were denied intergenerational wealth when the federal government took their land after the Civil War.
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