# @splcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTYFbiMAeF8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/79116637-splcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/8bc026f9b5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-11T16:01:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) — https://gondola.cc/splcenter

## Caption

#40acres and a mule — the federal government’s broken promise of land to newly freed Black Americans — wasn't a myth, but what you learned about it may have been intentionally skewed.

📲 Before we launch the next episode of  #ApathyIsNotAnOption, take a listen to our year-end review episode at the 🔗 in our bio.

For this one, we listen back to a favorite moment from 2025, where Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist nikolehannahjones explains how the story of those initial land grants has been deliberately distorted.

#USHistory #RoyalFlorida

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## Tags

40acres, royalflorida, apathyisnotanoption, ushistory

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