{"id":1886,"date":"2024-09-18T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:34:56","slug":"resource-spotlight-40-acres-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/resource-spotlight-40-acres-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT: 40 Acres &#038; a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most unique resources featured in our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/resources\/\">Resources for a Better World<\/a>&#8216; guide is this amazing collaboration involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicintegrity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Center for Public Integrity<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/article\/40-acres-and-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down the people, places, and stories that had long been misunderstood and forgotten, then asked their descendants about what\u2019s owed now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The resource includes historic documents, insightful analysis, engaging podcasts, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/40-acres-and-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 ACRES &amp; A LIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780593447376\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most unique resources featured in our &#8216;Resources for a Better World&#8216; guide is this amazing collaboration involving Mother Jones, The Center for Public Integrity, and Reveal. &#8220;A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/resource-spotlight-40-acres-a-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT: 40 Acres &#038; a Lie&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,40,63,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}