What happened to Black farmers?

Setting the Table by Whetstone Radio Collective

Mar 15, 202242:36Arts

African Americans have always had a complicated relationship with farming, despite being the backbone of America’s early agricultural industry, only 1% of farmers in the country are currently African American. On this ep...

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