Department of Agriculture has recognized it as “the leading cause of Black involuntary land loss.” Heirs’ property is estimated to make up more than a third of Southern black-owned land - 3.5 million acres, worth more than $28 billion. David Dietrich, a former co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Property Preservation Task Force, has called heirs’ property “the worst problem you never heard of.” The U.S. Many assume that not having a will keeps land in the family. In the United States today, 76% of African Americans do not have a will, more than twice the percentage of white Americans. The practice began during Reconstruction, when many African Americans didn’t have access to the legal system, and it continued through the Jim Crow era, when black communities were suspicious of white Southern courts. Instead, he let the land become heirs’ property, a form of ownership in which descendants inherit an interest, like holding stock in a company. Mitchell didn’t trust the courts, so he didn’t leave a will. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Sign up to get ProPublica’s major investigations delivered to your inbox. “Whatever you do,” he told his family on the night that he passed away, “don’t let the white man have the land.” In 1970, when Mitchell died, he had one final wish. “It’s our own little black country club,” Melvin and Licurtis’ sister Mamie liked to say. During the later years of racial-segregation laws, the land was home to the only beach in the county that welcomed black families. Churches held tent revivals on the waterfront, and kids played in the river, a prime spot for catching red-tailed shrimp and crabs bigger than shoes. Melvin and Licurtis’ grandfather Mitchell Reels was a deacon he farmed watermelons, beets and peas, and raised chickens and hogs. Some called it the bottom, or the end of the world. The property - 65 marshy acres that ran along Silver Dollar Road, from the woods to the river’s sandy shore - was racked by storms. Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery. Licurtis, who was 53, had spent years building a house near the river’s edge, just steps from his mother’s. He’d established a career shrimping in the river that bordered the land, and his sense of self was tied to the water. Melvin, who was 64, with loose black curls combed into a ponytail, ran a club there and lived in an apartment above it. The brothers were among dozens of Reels family members who considered the land theirs, but Melvin and Licurtis had a particular stake in it. That March, Melvin and Licurtis stood in court and refused to leave the land that they had lived on all their lives, a portion of which had, without their knowledge or consent, been sold to developers years before. Some people said that the brothers were righteous others thought that they had lost their minds. In the spring of 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the central coast of North Carolina. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. I’m confused.ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Is me putting down another sleeping bag breaking the LCB? I didn’t think it would do that unless I put another LCB down. Absolutely nothing else inside has been touched, the surrounding blocks are undamaged but the LCB is trashed again. So I surrounded it with fully upgraded steel blocks to keep that from happening again, but it did happen again, twice. The first time the LCB was just sitting out by itself so I thought maybe a stray zombie broke it somehow. The walls are all still ok so they didn’t come in from the outside. I’m assuming that’s why the zombies have respawned inside. I have noticed all 3 times that the land claim block (LCB) is down to 1HP and non-functional.
Fortunately they haven’t destroyed anything yet.
When I get back to my base I find a bunch of zombies have respawned back inside the bank and I have to kill them. Usually I lay a sleeping bag down where I’m at before going into a large POI so I won’t have to run back to where I am if I get killed (I haven’t yet on these explorations). Periodically I go out for long adventures exploring parts of the map I haven’t gotten to yet. The sleeping bag is in one of the corner ‘offices’. I’ve got my non-horde base in a bank POI with the land claim block right in the middle. I’m playing a random gen world in 17.2 on day 90 to 110 and I’m over level 100 for all of this.
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