Image via Wikipedia If you haven't heard many of our black farmers where being shut out of funds need to grow and distribute products on their farms. Black farmers just like white farmers need funding inorder to grow their crops. Many in congress was blocking aid to help the black farming community. White farmers seem to have access to much of the aide, and resources needed to make their farming business flourish. Every year farmers pitch for aid from the government inorder to grow and plant crops. The black farming community filed a lawsuite against the agriculture inorder to receive the 2billion dollars in aide it needs to grow its farming business.Black Farmers, Native Americans RECEIVE 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS ...
For the black farmers, it is the second round of funding from a class-action lawsuit originally settled in 1999 over allegations of widespread discrimination by local USDA offices. The government already has paid out more than $1 ...
Black Farmers Still Losing Ground -- In These Times
For the newly settled lawsuit, known as Pigford II, BFAA worked with a coalition of other black farmers' organizations to lobby for relief through Congress, Grant said. The group is now helping claimants obtain their due in the Claims ...
Obama signs $4.6B settlement of discrimination lawsuits with ...
On December 7, President Barack Obama signed the “Claims Resolution Act of 2010,” which will pay Native Americans and black farmers $4.6 billion to settle the class action discrimination lawsuit Cobell v. Salazar and the Pigford II ...
Good News Tuesday & The Black Farmers
That there is such a thing as Black Farmers? Typically when we think of farms and farmers we think, Caucasian, hillbilly types, middle to low intelligence, with country twangs, chewing on a piece of hay/straw. Yes, this is a very unfair ...
House GOP calls for investigation of Black Farmer settlement ...
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the African-American farmers, and others who attempted to enter the trade, after they were denied funding from the U.S. Agriculture Department to jump-start or keep their farm businesses afloat. ...
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