06/04/2026
Detroit has always been a classroom for the movement. 🌱
Last Wednesday, DBCFSN Education Director Erin Johnson and others coordinated a full-day Black Land Justice Tour for 70 religious leaders — Catholic sisters from across the country, national movement partners, and local faith leaders — alongside our partners at Land Justice Futures (formerly the Nuns & Nones Land Justice Project).
The tour moved through living, breathing examples of what food sovereignty and land reclamation look like on the ground: D-Town Farm, The Joy Project, and a shared meal at the Mama Imani Humphrey Banquet Hall in the Detroit Food Commons. Attorney Desiree Ferguson, the principal writer of the Detroit Reparations Task Force report, spoke on our city's history during our shared meal while the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund introduced themselves and their work.
Land Justice Futures supports aging religious communities in centering land justice in decisions about their own lands. They facilitated the first Catholic land return to a Native Nation in U.S. history — and they came to Detroit because our community is proof that land justice isn't just theoretical. It's a praxis everyone has a role in.
We're grateful Land Justice Futures for their visit and homage to the city and look forward to hosting them in the future. 🌍
