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Thomas Wilson Mitchell is a property law scholar. | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Property law scholar Thomas W. Mitchell, who was a 2020 recipient of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship for his work looking at how black and other disadvantaged Americans have been deprived of their real estate wealth, says black farmers alone have lost millions of acres of land and at least $250 billion in wealth over the last century due to “historic discrimination.” Mitchell shared the data du...