Black Farmers Were Finally Getting a Path to Land Ownership. The Federal Government Just Took It Away

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Portrait of senior male farmer standing in front of field By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated March 31, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

The story of Black land loss in America is long, painful and very well documented. 

Over the last century, Black farmers have lost an estimated 16 million acres, much of it through discrimination by the very federal agencies that were supposed to serve them. A program created under

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