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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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#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: 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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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.
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July 26, 2025 at 10:07 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...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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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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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.
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July 26, 2025 at 10:13 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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#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. Pete Buttigieg failed to hold Alabama DOT accountable for flooding Black homeowners in the Shiloh community. Join our campaign to get them #JustCompensation and stop Black Land Loss. www.bullardcenter.org/blog/black-l... @BullardCenter
#JusticeforShiloh
#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 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth: BLACK LAND LOSS: JUST COMPENSATION FOR SHILOH. Join forces with Bullard Center Texas Southern Univ. as we seek #JustCompensation for homeowners in Elba, AL #Shiloh community flooded by Alabama DOT highway project. www.bullardcenter.org/blog/black-l... #JusticeforShiloh #HBCU
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 4, 2025 at 3:25 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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#BlackHistoryMonth: The Fifth Amendment's #JustCompensation Clause requires the Alabama DOT to pay #Shiloh property owners when it #flooded their homes and took their property for public use in US 84 Highway expansion. It did not pay!
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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 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Elba, Alabama's Black #Shiloh community receives thousands to help with devastating #flooding - WDHN
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#Justiceforshiloh #Blacklandloss #takings #JustCompensation #FifthAmendment #ALDOT
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August 10, 2025 at 3:01 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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#BlackHistoryMonth: Elba, AL Black Shiloh community say a flawed Alabama DOT highway project caused major flooding, damaging homes and threatening their community. Join our campagn to get them #JustCompensation and stem #landloss and theft of their wealth. ABC News t.co/oemdngAhEr @BullardCenter
https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-alabamans-highway-project-caused-major-flooding-threatening/story?id=104048378
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February 8, 2025 at 10:45 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.

🔗 https://ow.ly/Z4Ts50YHJnH

#JusticeforShiloh #Justcompensation #Blacklandloss #takings #FifthAmendment
October 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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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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#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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📣 @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
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#Alabama DOT reveals plan to fix US 84 Highway it built that has #flooded the Black #Shiloh community for nearly 8 years, but no $$$ to residents for damaged homes | WDHN - wdhn.com
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January 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth:
These Flooded Black Alabamians Say Biden, Buttigieg #USDOT Failed Them. Now They Ask: Where Will Trump Stand? - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0902202... @BullardCenter #JustCompensation #takings #highway #BlackLandLoss #JusticeforShiloh
These Flooded Black Alabamians Say Biden, Buttigieg Failed Them. Now They Ask: Where Will Trump Stand? - Inside Climate News
The expansion of a highway has left the historically Black Shiloh community repeatedly flooded with rainwater. Is there a solution in sight?
insideclimatenews.org
February 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🕛 The count keeps moving upward.

Shiloh residents want clarity on flood risk and outcomes.

💻 Learn more and sign the Shiloh support letter at bullardcenter.org.

#ALDOT #JusticeforShiloh #Justcompensation #Blacklandloss #flooding #takings #FifthAmendment
February 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Federal dollars are being used to fund a drainage project in #Shiloh. Before construction begins, #ALDOT should follow standard public engagement practices and hold a meeting for residents who have endured 8 years of flooding.

🔗 https://ow.ly/XMsX50YNEUC

#JusticeforShiloh #Justcompensation
June 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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“Our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. We have no choice but to sue to get back what’s legally ours,” says Pastor Timothy Williams, Shiloh resident and lead plaintiff. #ALDOT #JustCompensation #FifthAmendment #takings

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July 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM