By Elisa BrownContributing Writer, The Louisiana Weekly (Special from Facing South) —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 programs – […]
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