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The organization endorses the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020 crafted by Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Elizabeth Warren, even going so far to label it the Black Farmers Civil Rights Act of 2020. [16]
Feed Durham began as a single event in 2020, feeding over 1,000 people. ... The organization also working to drum up support for the Justice for Black Farmers Act, which was introduced in January ...
The Justice for Black Farmers Act — landmark legislation aimed at addressing and correcting historic discrimination within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal farm assistance ...
As the White House works to support Black farmers through billions of dollars in new funding provided by the Biden-Harris administration, farmers historically harmed by the federal government have ...
Pigford v. Glickman (1999) was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging that it had racially discriminated against African-American farmers in its allocation of farm loans and assistance from 1981 to 1996.
The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, which says it has over 20,000 members, lost at a federal district court. ... significantly under the Trump administration in 2020 and the first ...
On August 26, 2020, the National Black Farmers Association filed a lawsuit in a St. Louis court seeking to force Monsanto and its parent company Bayer to end the sale of Roundup. [29] The lawsuit alleges that black farmers across the United States have been forced to use Roundup-resistant seeds and Roundup in increasingly heavier applications ...
Black farmers are disproportionately rejected or ignored for loans, and relief. Still, Hishaw says the federal government and big banks continue taking land from farmers of color.