Sep 19, 2022 | Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
Today, only 1.4 percent of American farmers identify as Black or mixed race, down from about 14 percent 100 years ago. Systemic discriminatory policies and practices, for example concerning land and financial access, have led to the decline. How can we turn...
Aug 1, 2022 | Agriculture, Higher Education
Before this summer, Kayla Adams couldn’t have told you much about grain. In fact, agriculture — at least in terms of farms, fields and grains — was pretty far from her mind, as an undergraduate student at Central State University in Ohio, hoping to become a...
Jun 19, 2021 | Agriculture
John Boyd Jr., a fourth-generation farmer, grew up close to his 1,000-acre farm in southern Virginia where he now grows soybeans, wheat and livestock. Boyd, of Baskerville, Virginia, is also the founder of the non-profit National Black Farmers Association, which...
Apr 25, 2021 | Agriculture, Books, History
Farming would seem to be one occupation that Black Americans could find refuge from discrimination. Consumers choose their fruits and veggies by their size and vitality, unconcerned about the hands that raised them. How different America would be if agriculture were...
Mar 22, 2021 | Agriculture, Finance
Black farmers across the U.S. will see relief from the latest stimulus bill after being largely left out of roughly $50 billion in government aid provided to farmers during the Trump administration. “Direct farm loans to Black farmers fell by more...
Aug 31, 2020 | Agriculture, Business
At the start of the 20th century, one in seven farmers in the United States was Black. In the decades that followed, however, Black Americans were dispossessed of an estimated 13 million acres of land. Many descendants of Black farmers moved north...
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