KU Commons Presents: Brea Baker

Another Case for Reparations: Black Land, Intergenerational Theft, and Models for Repairing Harm

Brea Baker is the author of "Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership" (2024). She believes deeply in nuanced storytelling and Black culture to drive change, and she has commented on race, gender, and sexuality for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Refinery29, Them, and more. Her writing has been featured in the anthologies Our History Has Always Been Contraband and No Justice, No Peace. A Yale alumna, Baker has been recognized as a 2017 Glamour Woman of the Year, a 2019 i-D Up + Rising, and a 2023 Creative Capital awardee. She has spoken at the United Nations’ Girl Up Initiative, Yale Law School, the Youth to Youth Summit in Hong Kong, the Museum of the City of New York, and elsewhere.