Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land […]
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The Great Land Robbery | The Atlantic
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms
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How Did African-American Farmers Lose 90 percent of Their Land? | Modern Farmer
A combination of obscure legal mechanisms and racist institutions enabled—and continues to enable—developers to weasel it away.
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How a Black Farming Community Found Justice | YES Magazine
Black families in the South are doing important work to continue the legacy of Black farming communities.
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The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens | Shoppe Black
Phenomenal Black owned farms make up less than 2 percent of all farms in the United States. According to a recent report, Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from 1910 to 2007, often because they lacked access to loans or insurance needed to sustain their businesses. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The report mentions the “long […]
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‘Black Farmers’ gear up for legal fight after appeals court setback | New York Amsterdam News
Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, Special to the New Tri-State Defender, New York Amsterdam News Photo by Mark Seliger, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Black Farmers and Agriculturalists (BFAA) recently hit a snag when the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, denied the group’s complaint against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]
View MoreBlack Farmer Says Trump’s Trade War, Shutdown Have Sliced His Profit Margins In Half | Atlanta Black Star
Tanasia Kenney, Atlanta Black Star | Eddie Cotton, 82, Hermanville, MS, clears a field for a fall crop of hay, using a 40-yr-old tractor. He is among thousands of black farmers denied federal loans in past years. “They took away my ability to provide for my family,” he says of the discrimination. ©Robin Nelson/ZUMA. Featured […]
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Black farmers say they were deliberately sold defective soybean seeds because of their race | The Washington Post
“We don’t have any white farmers coming forward and saying they were a victim of being given noncertified seeds.”
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Americans at Work: Urban Farming in West Oakland
This week’s Americans at Work essay focuses on inner-city agriculture programs by photographer Preston Gannaway: “Today, about a third of West Oakland residents live in poverty and with food insecurity.
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