Black Farmers Detail Struggles After Federal Court Agrees to Block Aid to Farmers of Color

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By Rayna Reid ·September 7, 2021 Published · September 7, 2021 Updated

Many have heard about the promise of “40 acres and a mule” to former slaves at the end of the Civil War, which never came to fruition.  But, when a federal court in Florida “issued a preliminary injunction halting a key part of the Biden administration’s federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts to farmers of color,” over the summer history appeared to repeat

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