While others debate land access, we’re already here. The question isn’t whether we belong — it’s what we build next.
There’s a conversation happening across the country about land, about reparations, about who gets to own a piece of this country and who gets left out. It’s an important conversation. But for the Walls family, it’s also a conversation we’ve been living — not just having — for nearly two centuries.
We have 150 acres. Not because someone gave it to us recently, but because our ancestors held on to it through slavery, through Jim Crow, through every legal and social mechanism designed to strip it away. That’s not just land ownership. That’s an act of resistance that spans generations.
Now, the question before us isn’t “do we have land?” — it’s “what do we do with what we’ve been given?” And the answer is: everything. Farms. Trails. Retreats. Archives. Youth programs. Revenue. Legacy.