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Sun Aug 25, 2024, 04:39 AM Aug 25

The future of debt relief for Black farmers after decades of discrimination - PBS NewsHour



According to federal data, there were about 925,000 Black farmers in 1920 in the United States. A century later, that number has declined to only about 42,000. John Boyd Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, joins Ali Rogin to discuss efforts by the Biden administration to help farmers who have been historically excluded from government assistance programs.
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