Fighting for Black Farmers’ Land

The Farm Report by Heritage Radio Network

May 6, 202100:33:55Arts

The American agricultural system was built based on the enslavement of African people, and since emancipation, systematic discrimination against Black people within agriculture has persisted. In 1920, close to 1 million...

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