400 Years Since 1619: 'We Needed to Do Something to End This:' Why a Group of Black Moms Took Over a Vacant House in Oakland

In November of of last year, a group of black mothers—Dominique Walker, Tolani King, Sameerah Karim, Sharena Thomas, and Misty Cross—moved into a shabby white house in Oakland that had sat vacant for two years. They called themselves Moms 4 Housing, and they had taken the radical but beautifully simple step of moving…