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Pierre Bretagne woke at 4am to feed the cows on his organic farm near the coastal town of Pornic in western France, then did something he had never dared to before. He made a cardboard protest banner about the nightmare of French bureaucracy and went to cheer on a go-slow convoy of tractors warning that […]
Sharifa Tomlinson runs Arrowrock Farm in Riverside, Ohio, where she sells her chickens to a U.S. Agriculture Department-funded program that processes them for food banks. She wants to help other Black farmers tap into the department’s programs. Amy Mayer hide caption toggle caption Amy Mayer Sharifa Tomlinson runs Arrowrock Farm in Riverside, Ohio, where she […]
L-R: Kara Boyd, founder/president of Association of American Indian Farmers, John Boyd, Jr., founder/president of National Black Farmers Association, Attorney Benjamin Crump, at NBFA National Rally and Press Conference at National Mall, October 12, 2022. Photo credit: www.johnboydjr.com By Christopher Young,Contributing Writer, In Mississippi, where racism and oppression persist in full force, we continually call […]
Tameka Peoples was putting on an event for a nonprofit in her California community some years ago, and needed items to fill a swag bag. The Air Force-veteran-turned-cyberspace contractor had an idea for a T-shirt, but because the community and the recipients of these freebies are predominantly Black, she wanted to source the garment from […]
Farmers who believe they experienced discrimination by the Department of Agriculture . . .
DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Associations, representing 20,000 members filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture for the process they are using to compensate $50,000 to farmers under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. President Thomas Burrell claimed the 40-page application process is confusing and discriminating against tens of […]
PINEBLUFF (KATV) — The Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association (BFFA) met with hundreds of black farmers from Arkansas at the Pine Bluff Convention Center on Wednesday to receive information on financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Congress has set aside $2.2 billion in financial assistance as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of […]
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Hundreds of black farmers and landowners met in downtown Columbus to sign a petition that’s headed to Congress. After one of the largest civil rights settlements in history, one United States agency is accused of withholding payments for over two decades. From 1865 to the present day, black farmers have been […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 6, 2023) – Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) and U.S. Representatives Dan Kildee (MI-08) and Bobby Scott (VA-03) today introduced the Family Farmer and Rancher Tax Fairness Act of 2023, legislation that would remove the tax liability for distressed farmers on the assistance provided under Sections 22006 and 22007 of the […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) encourages and helps secure opportunities for minority farmers to gain traction in international trade as well as growing and promoting their business. Last year, FAS started working closely with Arkansas River Rice, the only black-owned rice mill in the United States. Through his work with […]