Author, agricultural attorney and nonprofit leader Jillian Hishaw’s grandfather’s land in Oklahoma was stolen. An attorney who the family had hired to pay the farm’s taxes instead kept the money and sold the land. Years later, the Hishaw family discovered that the home had been replaced by an oil pump, leading them to believe that knowledge of oil on the land was the reason for the theft. Now, Hishaw advocates for other Black farmers through the court system to help preserve their land ownership.
