I'm often asked, "So, Mistinguette, what is the story of your own black relationship to land?" Like the people I interview, I used to think I didn't have a Black/Land story.
But on my way to visit a community in Alabama to listen to their stories, I discovered my own Black/Land story was waiting for me on the road to that destination. You can read about it here, in the essay By Land, Made Kin in Emergence Magazine issue no.2