How debt relief for Black owned farms was blocked by a White farmer’s claim of discrimination in Wisconsin – Milwaukee Independent
Out of 3.4 million farmers working in the United States, fewer than 50,000 are Black, according to the most recent Census of Agriculture taken in 2017. That disproportionately small number is due in large part to historic racial discrimination in federal farm programsand now efforts to address that history are themselves being attacked as discriminatory.…