As President Trump hails his administration’s efforts to support farmers amid rising costs, Black farmers facing foreclosure ...
Black farmers make up less than 1% of total U.S. farmers today, significantly less than there were more than a century ago.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Al Hooks has been a farmer all his life. “I’m 72, will be 73 in about four months,” Al said. The business of growing crops to support the family and community has been passed down ...
The cancellation of a nearly $300 million USDA program is the latest blow to communities that have been fighting for agricultural equity for generations.
Finally. As many as 68,000 African-American farmers who were the victims of racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1980s and ’90s may start getting compensation from a ...
“The way that he talks about them, it’s like, you know, a step behind slavery,” said John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ...
NEW ORLEANS - James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year. The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels ...
From the beginning of Civil Eats back in 2009, we’ve paid particular attention to the experience of Black farmers as they’ve sought to right historical wrongs and reclaim connection to the land. Over ...
After years of waiting, about 18,000 U.S. farmers are set to receive payments from the Department of Agriculture as part of a $1.2 billion discrimination settlement with the department, the Clarion ...
With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, Demetrius Hunter saw a crisis in his community only worsen. And so he had a choice. He could open a new grocery store in a part of Raleigh where residents ...
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