Black families passed their homes from one generation to the next. Now they may be lost

Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it's causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger

Margaret Alston doesn't remember the night that Hurricane Matthew hit, but she remembers how afraid she was of the flooding that followed.

The biggest hurricane to hit South Carolina since 1999, the storm caused massive inland flooding across large swaths of the south-east. In Bucksport, the small, unincorporated town where Alston grew up, the Wacamaw River overflowed, inundating the street Alston's house is on and making it impassable.