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Mobile Basin Heirs’ Property Support Initiative – The Center’s Replication Model

The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation™ and the Mississippi Center for Justice announced on October, 14th, 2021, the Mobile Basin …

Fighting Black Land Loss Helps Birds, Too

Read this article from Audubon Magazine about the efforts to reform heirs' property laws and how they're expanding access to …

FEMA Changing Policies, Dr. Stephens on NBC Nightly News

Did you see the Center's CEO Dr. Jennie L. Stephens on the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on September …

Rowesville Meeting with Secretary of Agriculture and Majority Whip

The Center's CEO, Dr. Jennie L. Stephens, was in Rowesville, S.C. on May 24th, 2021 meeting with farmers about the …

Photos from the Groundbreaking of The Opportunity Center!

Check out these photos from The Post and Courier from January 25, 2021 of the groundbreaking to our new home, …

Gentrification

An Analysis of Place Based Strategies for Preserving African American Neighborhoods in America...HERE

National News!

ProPublica & The New Yorker magazine talk about heirs' property and the cruel history of Black land loss...HERE

Youth in AG

Center "Woodland Community Advocate" Joe Hamilton invites Green Pond youth to his tree farm to learn about growing trees and …

Demonstration Forest

The Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust donated 23 acres to the Center to teach youth about managing land for timber