Black Farmers Have Been Robbed of Land. A New Bill Would Give Them a "Quantum Leap" Toward Justice.

After the US Civil War, newly emancipated Black growers won a share of the agricultural landscape. They did so despite fierce backlash and the ultimately failed promises of Reconstruction. By the 1910s, nearly a million Black farmers, a seventh of the nation’s total, owned 41.4 million acres of land, mostly in the South. That turned […]