It’s just as true for other Black farmers and cattle ranchers: They are a dwindling lot, living on less land and battered by financial hardships and uncertainties that place a heavier burden on them ...

“If you’re trying to address racial discrimination and you don’t address the Black problem, you’re really not addressing racial discrimination.” Ninety-six percent of all farmers are ...

This story is part of a multipart series examining the disparate impacts on Black farmers ... Multiple lawsuits led by white farmers, who said the program discriminated against them for being ...

In contrast, 72% of white farmers who applied were approved. Perhaps some of the biggest gaps in the loan demographics can also be seen in the rejection numbers, where 16% of Black farmers were ...

The USDA has a long history of refusing to process loans from Black farmers, approving smaller loans compared to white farmers, and in some cases foreclosing quicker than usual when Black farmers ...

When Ramaphosa highlighted the fact that crime, and rural crime in particular, has an impact on all South Africans and that more black people than white people are being killed, Trump’s response was ...

The agency has acknowledged shutting Black farmers out of funding that helped their white counterparts succeed,” NPR reports. In response, under the American Rescue Plan, lawmakers were able to ...

The triumph would not last. By 1990, Black farmers lost 90% of that land. Over that same period, white farmers lost only 2% percent of their acreage. This staggering data prompted us to travel ...

Donor funding helped the Zimbabwean government buy land from white commercial farmers, enabling about 50,000 Black farmers to receive land. But the programme was ultimately underfunded and fell ...