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#BlackHistoryMonth: Savi Horne, Executive Director of the Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP), discusses the organization's history and efforts to help NC Black farmers.
 youtu.be/ApxNctBJpeU?... @Land_Loss @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh
Savi Horne on the Land Loss Prevention Project
YouTube video by Farm Aid
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February 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated #Flooding - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0807202... #ALDOT #Justiceforshiloh #JustCompensation #Blacklandloss #takings #FifthAmendment #civilrights
Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated Flooding - Inside Climate News
Residents in the Shiloh Community have fought for years to remedy excessive stormwater runoff caused by an elevated highway. Now they’re suing.
insideclimatenews.org
July 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: The racist history of America's interstate highway boom - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/homeless-hou... @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh
The racist history of America's interstate highway boom
Construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System tore through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that, through intention and indifference, carved up Black communities
www.latimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: It's important we keep doing EJ research and present facts. FYI, the Draft EIS for the 1989 LA uranium enrichment plant reported no people nearby. The site sat between historically Black Forest Grove & Center Springs, founded in 1865 & 1910. @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss
February 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: I'm appealing to all who care about private property rights and justice to join our campaign to help stop #BlackLandLoss in my hometown of Elba, AL and help get #JustCompensation for Shiloh homeowners flooded by an ALDOT highway #takings. www.bullardcenter.org/blog/black-l...
BLACK LAND LOSS: JUST COMPENSATION FOR SHILOH
The Bullard Center theme for Black History Month this year is Black Land Loss: Just Compensation for Shiloh.
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February 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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How #Racism Flooded Alabama’s Historically Black #Shiloh Community - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0702202... #Blacklandloss #Justiceforshiloh #ALDOT #flooding #JustCompensation #takings #FifthAmendment #civilrights
How Racism Flooded Alabama’s Historically Black Shiloh Community - Inside Climate News
Robert Bullard, the “father of environmental justice,” has pledged to bring the community’s concerns to the White House.
insideclimatenews.org
July 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth:
This Black Family Won’t Back Down After Court Allows Railroad to Take Their Land - Capital B News - capitalbnews.org/georgia-fami... #BlackLandLoss #JustCompesation #takings #JusticeforShiloh
This Black Family Won’t Back Down After Court Allows Railroad to Take Their Land
After a judge ruled that a railroad could take their land, landowners in Sparta, Georgia, are appealing the decision to the state’s Supreme Court.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: "White Men's Roads through Black Men's Homes": Advancing Racial Equity" by Deborah N. Archer scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol73/is... @VandLRev @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh
"White Men's Roads through Black Men's Homes": Advancing Racial Equity through Highway Reconstruction
Racial and economic segregation in urban communities is often understood as a natural consequence of poor choices by individuals. In reality, racially and economically segregated cities are the result...
scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu
February 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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#EARTHDAY: Black Alabamans in #Shiloh community say #ALDOT highway project caused major #flooding, threatening their community - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/black-ala... #Justiceforshiloh #JustCompesation #takings #Blacklandloss #highwayrobbery #Actonclimate
Black Alabamans say highway project caused major flooding, threatening their community
Alabama officials deny that the flooding of a community outside official flood zones had anything to do with a highway expansion. Local residents disagree
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April 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth. Join our campaign to get #JustCompensation for Black Shiloh community residents whose homes have been damaged by flooding from a flawed highway built by Alabama DOT. www.bullardcenter.org/blog/black-l... @BullardCenter #JusticeforShiloh
#ALDOT #BlackLandLoss #takings
BLACK LAND LOSS: JUST COMPENSATION FOR SHILOH
The Bullard Center theme for Black History Month this year is Black Land Loss: Just Compensation for Shiloh.
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February 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: Join our justice campaign to stop #BlackLandLoss in my hometown of Elba, AL. Help get #JustCompensation for #Shiloh homeowners flooded by an Alabama DOT highway. #FHWA is requiring #ALDOT to fix road, but not damaged homes. www.bullardcenter.org/blog/black-l... @BullardCenter
BLACK LAND LOSS: JUST COMPENSATION FOR SHILOH
The Bullard Center theme for Black History Month this year is Black Land Loss: Just Compensation for Shiloh.
www.bullardcenter.org
February 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Shiloh is not just a town—it’s a legacy worth fighting for. We demand #JusticeForShiloh and #JustCompensationforShiloh now.

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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLandLoss #takings
February 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: Heirs’ Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion - Union of Concerned Scientists blog.ucsusa.org/archie-creec... @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompesation #JusticeforShiloh
Heirs' Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion
Systemic racism rooted in Jim Crow era policies has cost Black farmers an estimated $326 billion in land lost because it was inherited without a legal will or title.
blog.ucsusa.org
February 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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#BlackHistoryMonth:
Gaining Ground - The Fight for Black Land Documentary gaininggroundthefilm.com @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh #Alabama
Gaining Ground - The Fight for Black Land Documentary
From Executive Producer Al Roker, Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land examines the causes, effects, and solutions to this issue.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: How black land became white sand: The racial erosion of the U.S. coasts | Grist grist.org/living/how-a... @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh
How black land became white sand: The racial erosion of the U.S. coasts
In 1910, African Americans owned over 15 million acres in the former slave-holding states, much of it along the coasts. Few of them reaped the bounty as those lands were transformed into beach towns a...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Shiloh, AL’s Black homeowners are facing #BlackLandLoss as highway expansion causes flooding & broken promises leave them stranded. This #BlackHistoryMonth, we remember—and demand action. Who will step up?

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February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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BlackHistoryMonth: A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways. Join our fight to get #JustCompensation for the Black Shiloh community flooded by flawed highway built by the Alabama DOT. www.npr.org/2021/04/07/9... @NPR @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JusticeforShiloh
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.
www.npr.org
February 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Elba, Alabama's Black #Shiloh community receives thousands to help with devastating #flooding - WDHN
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#highwayrobbery
#Justiceforshiloh #Blacklandloss #takings #JustCompensation #FifthAmendment #ALDOT
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August 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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BlackHistoryMonth: I worked on a lawsuit where county landfill leaked and poisoned Black family's well water and land they owned for 5 generations. "Poster Child" for Environmental Racism Finds Justice in Dickson, TN www.nrdc.org/bio/albert-h... @NRDC @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss
"Poster Child" for Environmental Racism Finds Justice in Dickson, TN
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."—Frederick Douglass (1855)After a nine-year struggle, today Sheila Holt-Orsted ...
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February 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: From 15 Million Acres to 1 Million: How Black People Lost Their Land - America's Black Holocaust Museum www.abhmuseum.org/from-15-mill... @BullardCenter #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeforShiloh
From 15 Million Acres to 1 Million: How Black People Lost Their Land - America's Black Holocaust Museum
In 1900, formerly enslaved Black people and their heirs owned and farmed 15 million acres of land. Now, Black folks are only 1 percent of rural landowners in the U. S., and under 2 percent of farmers....
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February 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Shiloh homeowners have the same rights as other Americans–the right to be justly compensated for flood damages caused by ALDOT.

📺 Watch the Disturbing History of America’s Highways: ow.ly/AlYR50V4Fp8

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLandLoss #JustCompensation #JusticeForShiloh #takings
February 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#Alabama Faith and Community Leaders Call for Scrutiny of SSE4 #Pipeline and Fossil Fuel Budget Provisions - The Bullard Center www.bullardcenter.org/blog/alabama... #Justiceforshiloh #LNG #Blacklandloss
Alabama Faith and Community Leaders Call for Scrutiny of SSE4 Pipeline and Fossil Fuel Budget Provisions
Alabama Faith and Community Leaders Call for Scrutiny of SSE4 Pipeline and Fossil Fuel Budget Provisions
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June 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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👥 As drainage construction nears completion in #Shiloh, affected residents should not be left without answers. #ALDOT should hold a public information meeting before the project is finalized.

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#JusticeforShiloh #Justcompensation #Blacklandloss #takings #FifthAmendment
October 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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#EARTHDAY: How #Racism Flooded Alabama’s Historically Black #Shiloh Community - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0702202... #ALDOT #Blacklandloss #highwayrobbery #flooding #takings #JustCompesation #Justiceforshiloh #Actonclimate
How Racism Flooded Alabama’s Historically Black Shiloh Community - Inside Climate News
Robert Bullard, the “father of environmental justice,” has pledged to bring the community’s concerns to the White House.
insideclimatenews.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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📣 @drrobertbullard.bsky.social, Timothy & Melissa Williams are in Charlottesville for the 2025 SELC Reed Award honoring ABC News’ exposé on #Shiloh’s flooding & environmental racism. Shiloh homeowners & allies demand #JustCompensation from #ALDOT for #BlackLandLoss. ow.ly/yoW150VlVav
March 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM