Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land – Documentary – Runtime: 95 mins
In just a few decades after the end of enslavement, Black Americans were able to amass millions of acres of farmland. Today approximately 90% of that land is no longer in Black hands. Various factors have been employed to take Black land including violence, eminent domain and government discrimination. But it is a little-known issue – Heirs’ Property – which has had a devastating effect on Black land ownership. Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land is a timely and stirring documentary from Emmy-nominated Producer/Director Eternal Polk and Al Roker Entertainment that examines the causes, effects, and what is being done to fight the exploitation of these issues and how landowners are reclaiming their agricultural legacy and creating paths to generational wealth.
Director & Writer: Eternal Polk
Producers: Chimene Williams, Denise Hurst Green, Francisco Newman
Cast: Philip “PJ” Haynie lll, Dañia Davy, Karen Washington, Danita Mason-Hogans, Michael Robinson, Debra Ely, Derric Jackson, Johane Domersant, Marc Howze, Andrez Carberry, Thomas Mitchell, Shirley Sherrod, Natalie Baszile, Jennie Stephens, Decton Hylton, Robert Fontenot, Ebony Woodruff, Bruce Harrell, Franklin Achonye, Kalia Washington, Kendall Rankin