In 2020, friends Ashley Scott, Renee Walters and Laura Riley-Cooper pooled their money to buy 502 acres of in a rural area of Georgia. Their goal? To create a haven for Black people in the wake of the upheaval caused by the pandemic and police brutality. They've since recruited 19 families to work together to build a town from scratch. They’re calling it Freedom, Georgia. But before Freedom can become a town, it needs infrastructure, governance and an economy. We speak with Freedom co-founder Ashley Scott about the town's goals and challenges, and Dr. Teruko Mitsuhara, an anthropologist at the University of California Los Angeles, about what Freedom can learn from historic attempts to build utopian communities.