Tag: Black farmers
USDA to distribute $2.2 billion in funding to Black farmers who...
The Biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial assistance to 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who were discriminated against in the agency's farm lending programs.
Black farmers embrace practices of climate resiliency
They are using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers.
A new generation of Black farmers is returning to the land
They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.
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It’s time: Boycott America
Name-and-shame tactics don’t work with leaders who have no shame. Grab Trump by the wallet—it’s the only language he understands.
Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-communist zealots in Miami don’t like it
But just how committed is Trump to fighting communism in Latin America at this particular moment—in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua?
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.
Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children—new UN report
The renewed bombing follows repeated violations of the ceasefire terms by Israel.