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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts to discuss Black farming through sculpture on April 7
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn conjunction with the presentation of Bernard Williams’ Black Tractor Project, 2020, in the John...
5,000 acres to foreclosed: How one family’s story shows the struggle of Black farmers
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYour browser does not support the video tag. New Iberia, Louisiana, where sugar cane fields stretch...
The receipts: Documented discrimination against Black farmers
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe history of the support the U.S. government has provided to white farmers and denied Black farmers is well documented. Our project Uneven Ground tells the stories of today's Southern Black ...
Opinion: Here's How I Believe Airbnb Reconnected Me To My Family's Roots
AfroTech via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the descendant of Black farmers by way of southern Virginia, this Airbnb experience was a...
‘A great milestone’: Cookies Miami opening shows challenges in Florida cannabis industry
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoBerner didn’t think he’d be here. “I was really worried I wouldn’t see like this,” says Berner, the...
Protecting an ‘endangered species.’ Black-owned farm in NC vows to keep its land, legacy
Raleigh News and Observer via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIt’s a September day on Pine Knot Farms in Hurdle Mills, north of Durham. A cool breeze cuts through...
The Quest for Racial Equality Has Always Been Different for Rural Americans
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA family of Black tenant farmers takes a break from working in the fields to watch Alabama Governor...
‘Fly in the buttermilk’: Black farmers fight decades long discrimination
KFOR articles via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHOLDENVILLE, Okla. (KFOR) – George Roberts is one of the only Black farmers left in Oklahoma. “We the fly in the buttermilk,” he said of the expansive Circle R Ranch in Holdenville. Born into ...
Black farmers can get up to $500,000 if they prove they have been discriminated against
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFarmers and ranchers who have experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending have the opportunity...
What would a museum dedicated to Black farmers look like? This Mississippi woman knows
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGenerations of Black farmers in the Delta have suffered under the weight of racial discrimination...