Ancestral Lands in FL and the Home Sweet Home Project
Belay Alem (Graduate Student, CAS & Anthropology) recently was accepted as a volunteer research associate in the Three Rivers Legal Service. He will be working on the Home Sweet Home Project, which assists African Americans in probate cases to maintain their property/ land or structure inherited from their ancestors. His work with Three Rivers Legal Service builds on his Ph.D. project on heirs’ property inheritance, taxation, and tenure among African Americans in Florida and Alachua County, in particular. Belay adds that besides volunteering and extending outreach service, working on this project has helped him to engage with communities relevant to his proposed research.
Learn more about Heirs’ Property and the Home Sweet Home Project here.