Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout Brenda Scott’s father came to west Tennessee as a sharecropper. By 1971 — as a result of hard work and government loans — he had 129 acres of his own, some of which his descendants occupy today. His adult children and grandchildren belong to an enclave …
Read More »Black Farmers Sue U.S. Government Over Repealed Debt Relief
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump this week announced a class action suit against the United States government on behalf of the National Black Farmers Association. The lawsuit comes amid findings that Black farmers lost about $326 billion of land in America because of discrimination during the 20th century. During the …
Read More »Texas Agriculture Commissioner Suing To Stop Aid To Black Farmers
By James Pollard, The Texas Tribune Jan. 24, 2022 Igalious “Ike” Mills grew up working his family’s farm in the Piney Woods town of Nacogdoches. His siblings still keep it running, relying on a lot of the same equipment used by their father and grandfather. Mills, who is Black, spends …
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