As part of the latest COVID-19 relief package, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin handing out $4 billion in payments to an estimated 16,000 Black farmers beginning as early as next June to counter decades of loan discrimination by the USDA. Some say the provision —introduced by Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock— would benefit Black […]

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