#Uproot
Injustice
From land dispossession in the Global South to housing discrimination in European capitals — we trace the deep roots of racial injustice across borders and organize communities to dismantle these systems at their source.
The Root System
Is One.
Hover each node to see how racial injustice was never isolated — always a system, always connected across borders and centuries.
Transatlantic Enslavement Begins in Virginia
The first enslaved Africans arrive at Point Comfort, Virginia, inaugurating a system of racial chattel slavery that will shape the Americas for centuries.
Dutch East India Company Colonizes the Cape
The VOC establishes a resupply station at the Cape of Good Hope, beginning land dispossession of Khoikhoi and San peoples that continues through apartheid.
Berlin Conference Carves Africa
European powers divide the African continent without African representation, creating borders that split communities and concentrate resources under colonial extraction.
Racial Equality Proposal Rejected at Versailles
Japan's proposal to enshrine racial equality in the League of Nations Covenant is vetoed by Western powers, cementing hierarchies that fuel anti-colonial movements.
Brazilian Racial Democracy Myth Institutionalized
Brazil promotes "racial democracy" while Black Brazilians face systematic exclusion from land ownership, education, and political representation.
UK Race Relations Act: Rights Without Redress
Britain passes anti-discrimination legislation while simultaneously restricting Commonwealth immigration — codifying a two-track system of formal equality and material exclusion.
Post-Apartheid Land Redistribution Stalls
South Africa's democratic transition leaves land ownership patterns largely intact: 72% of farmland remains in white hands despite promises of redistribution.
Global Uprising After George Floyd's Murder
Mass protests erupt on six continents, connecting police violence in Minneapolis to housing segregation in Paris, caste discrimination in India, and Indigenous dispossession in Australia.
The Work
Already Growing.
Three living campaigns. Each one a root in the same system. Each one connected to the others across borders.
The Soil Remembers: Land Restitution in Zimbabwe & South Africa
Colonial land seizures dispossessed millions. Decades after formal independence, fewer than 10% of Black South African households own the land beneath their homes. Our campaign coordinates legal advocacy, community land trusts, and transnational pressure on financial institutions that continue to hold colonial-era land bonds.
Read full case study"They gave us a flag. They kept the land. We are documenting every title deed that traces back to dispossession — and we will not stop."
Redlined in Rotterdam: Algorithmic Discrimination in European Housing
From Paris banlieues to the periphery of Amsterdam, racialized communities face a new form of redlining — algorithmic credit scoring that encodes historical disadvantage into automated denial. Our researchers map these systems, our lawyers challenge them, and our community partners build housing cooperatives outside the discriminatory market.
Read full case study"The algorithm doesn't use race — it uses postcode, family name, and employment history. The result is identical to a racial map drawn by hand."
Defending the Amazon: Indigenous Land Rights as Climate Justice
Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities in the Amazon basin hold the ecological knowledge that could prevent climate catastrophe — yet they face assassination, illegal mining, and legal dispossession at record rates. Uproot coordinates international solidarity, legal defense funds, and direct action training for frontline communities.
Read full case study"When they destroy our territory, they destroy the lungs of the world. This is not only a racial justice fight — it is a fight for everyone who breathes."
Where the Roots
Converge.
This is not a conference. It is the moment where centuries of separate struggles recognize themselves as one root system — and begin to act as one.
“Every generation has its gathering. This is ours — and unlike our ancestors, we have the tools to make it permanent.”
Summit Tracks
Every Root
Belongs Here.
Whether you can be in Nairobi in September or not — there is a place for you in this work.