Our guest, Brea Baker, is an acclaimed author, political strategist, and national organizer, whose first book Rooted is a quick-paced and engagingly lucid primer on the physical histories and land legacies of Black people in the United States, interwoven with Baker's own vivid family history of devastating land loss in Kentucky and North Carolina. 

Baker has examined records and historical accounts from all over the country to illustrate how the concerted effort to push Black Americans off of the land has resulted in the contemporary racial wealth gap. 

In chapters like "So Much for 40 Acres and a Mule," "What Doesn't Kill You," and "The Land Wants Us Back," she presents a powerful history of the impact of land theft and violent displacement in the U.S., arguing that justice and reparations will stem from its literal roots.

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