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Help Us Preserve Black Custodial Landownership, Ecological Stewardship, and Food and Fiber Cooperative Economies in the South. Over the decades, numerous Black-led nonprofit institutions have attempted to address the steady erosion of the African American agricultural land base and intergenerational wealth; however, their efforts have been unsustainable due to perpetual o...
26th Anniversary of Pigford v. Glickman Class Action Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Debacle Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign
26th Anniversary of Pigford v. Glickman Class Action Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Debacle Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign
Study Land Justice Community Archives
Study Land Justice Community Archives
Study Timeline of USDA Discrimination Against Black Farmers (1920-present)
Study Timeline of USDA Discrimination Against Black Farmers (1920-present)
Timeline: Black farmers and the USDA, 1920 to present
Read April 8th, 2020 Letter to Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack Urging Swift Implementation of the $5B Debt Cancellation and Related Services for Farmers of Color in Sections 1005 and 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act
Read April 8th, 2020 Letter to Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack Urging Swift Implementation of the $5B Debt Cancellation and Related Services for Farmers of Color in Sections 1005 and 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act
April 8, 2021 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20250 Dear Secretary Vilsack: We, the undersigned organizations, farmers, and advocates urge for a swift implementation of the $5B debt relief and related ...
Read How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land by Kali Holloway, The Nation Magazine
Read How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land by Kali Holloway, The Nation Magazine
Black people own just 2 percent of farmland in the United States. A decades-long history of loan denials at the USDA is a major reason why.
Watch Justice for Black Farmers: The Law, Policy, & Politics of Debt Cancellation
Watch Justice for Black Farmers: The Law, Policy, & Politics of Debt Cancellation
The Department of Agriculture’s civil rights record is among the worst in the federal government. Black farmers have lost hundreds of billions in land and in...
Watch Justice for Black Farmers: A Conversation to Uproot Racist Policy and Plant Seeds of Redress at Berkeley Food Institute
Watch Justice for Black Farmers: A Conversation to Uproot Racist Policy and Plant Seeds of Redress at Berkeley Food Institute
Berkeley Food Institute 2021 Justice for Black Farmers EventOctober 28, 2021, 12:30 – 2:00 PM PTThe introduction of the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020...
Subscribe to KweliTV and Watch RESTORATION: A Concert Film
Subscribe to KweliTV and Watch RESTORATION: A Concert Film
In Spring 2020, the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund collaborated with the South Carolina Lowcountry hip hop group, Native Son, to create the anthem for their campaign, “The Land,' our generation’s love offering to the beautiful struggle to protect 1.5 million acres of Black farmlands from USDA dispossession. The film explores southern Black agrarian stories of self-determination, land ownership, and folkwit; amplifies ongoing struggles for restorative land justice in this country including the Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign; and weaves together live musical performances from Native Son and the personal narratives of Black legacy farmers and land stewards throughout the film.
View Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's St. James Infirmary Salute to Our Farmer Ancestors
View Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's St. James Infirmary Salute to Our Farmer Ancestors
"We celebrate the transition to ancestry in my home city of New Orleans. I updated St. James Infirmary to reflect that mix of celebration and personal sorrow...
STREAM Restoration: A Concert Film
STREAM Restoration: A Concert Film
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Watch Black Farmers Press Event with Senators Reverend Warnock, Booker, and Warren
Watch Black Farmers Press Event with Senators Reverend Warnock, Booker, and Warren
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Read Media Advisory for Black Farmers Press Event
Read Media Advisory for Black Farmers Press Event
Watch Interviews of Pigford Legacy Farmers
Watch Interviews of Pigford Legacy Farmers
View Archival Farmer Interviews Including Janie Bell Bembry and Mary Ida Hargrove
View Archival Farmer Interviews Including Janie Bell Bembry and Mary Ida Hargrove
These interviews were conducted by Mr. Eddie Slaughter in 2009.
View Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020 Webinar
View Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020 Webinar
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The Acres of Ancestry Initiative (AAI) is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem rooted in Black ecocultural traditions and textile arts to regenerate custodial landownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the South.