black farmers

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/business/economy/inflation-reduction-act-black-farmers.html?referringSource=articleShare Brandon Smith, a farmer in Bastrop, Texas, bought equipment for his ranch when he thought aid would arrive as part of last year’s American Rescue Plan.Credit...Montinique...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/business/economy/inflation-reduction-act-black-farmers.html?referringSource=articleShare Brandon Smith, a farmer in Bastrop, Texas, bought equipment for his ranch when he thought aid would arrive as part of last year’s American Rescue Plan.Credit...Montinique...

#bothsides

#Bothsides

How a Top Chicken Company Cut Off Black Farmers, One by One — ProPublica Pretty long read, basically detailed accounts of shyt farmers went thru. Cliffs on the first story: Breh used to be a sheriff's deputy :usure: used his savings to buy a farm in 2002, planned to raise horses and pass it...

As an African-American, John Boyd Jr. might not be what Americans imagine when they think of a typical farmer. But Boyd has been farming his entire life, like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him. He grows wheat, corn and soybeans and has cattle at his southwestern Virginia...

My previous beefs went back 100+ years. Cause, you know, it’s history. But this one is much more recent. The media been quiet on one of the most consequential civil rights battles of the twenty-first century and I felt obliged to fill a gap. John Boyd Jr. was born in Queens in 1965. Like...

John Boyd Jr’s grandfather Thomas, the son of a slave, slept with the deed to his farm under his mattress. He worried constantly that his land would be taken away. Twenty miles away and three generations later, Boyd lives on his own 210-acre farm, in a big white colonial house with rows of...