The Freedom Georgia Initiative was established out of an extreme sense of urgency to create a thriving safe haven for black families in the midst of racial trauma, a global pandemic, and economic instabilities across the United States of America brought on by COVID-19.

2024年5月6日 · A group of 19 African American families bought a 98-acre tract of land in rural Georgia in 2018 to create a freed state community just 130 miles from Atlanta to develop a relatively racially unfettered community for aspiring Black Americans.

Freedom is a settlement in the U.S. state of Georgia established in September 2020, in the wake of a breakdown of race relations after the killing of several African Americans, including the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. [1]

2023年7月11日 · The 19 households bought nearly 100 acres near Toomsboro, Georgia, to create a self-sustaining, new Black town. They wanted to call it Freedom, Georgia, launching the Freedom Georgia...

2020年9月12日 · Magnetic clouds and flares from a sun storm are hurtling to Earth. This could impact power and communications. “Welcome to Freedom!” exclaims real estate agent Ashley Scott as she surveys the...

2020年9月17日 · Nineteen Black families have purchased nearly 100 acres of land in the rural town of Toomsboro that will be known as Freedom, Georgia. “I’m hoping that it will be a thriving, safe haven for people of color, for Black families in particular,” Scott told CNN.

2022年6月15日 · Two years ago, three women created the Freedom settlement in Georgia with the hopes of making a safe haven for Black people. Living on the land is still years away.

Our aim is to be a premier recreational, educational, and cultural destination for Black families across the African diaspora. We welcome you, your family, and all Black allies to support us in our vision to be the change we want to see!

2020年11月4日 · Some 19 families and nearly 97 acres of land purchased later, the Freedom Georgia Initiative (which purchased the land back in August) is stepping closer to their goal as they hope to...

2020年9月11日 · The initiative is geared toward offering a fresh opportunity for a Black-centric community to thrive after the ruin of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street" by white supremacists and the poverty...