{"id":1922,"date":"2024-09-25T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:33:42","slug":"a-small-step-forward-in-addressing-historic-discrimination-of-black-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/a-small-step-forward-in-addressing-historic-discrimination-of-black-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Step Forward in Addressing Historic Discrimination of Black Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-discrimination-kansas-cultures-agriculture-871f463bcf1e1e4fac8aa3492f7c8264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA has a long history<\/a>\u00a0of refusing to lend money to Black farmers, approving smaller loans to Black farmers compared to white farmers, and foreclosing quicker on Black farmers than white farmers.\u00a0 To rectify this, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a>\u00a0has given more than $2 billion to more than 23,000 victims.\u00a0 But is it enough?<\/p>\n<p><strong>US pays $2bn to Black and minority farmers after years of discrimination<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/usda-black-farmer-payment-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/01\/usda-black-farmer-payment-discrimination<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781948677806\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA has a long history\u00a0of refusing to lend money to Black farmers, approving smaller loans to Black farmers compared to white farmers, and foreclosing quicker on Black farmers than white farmers.\u00a0 To rectify this, the Biden administration\u00a0has given more than $2 billion to more than 23,000 victims.\u00a0 But is it enough? US pays $2bn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/a-small-step-forward-in-addressing-historic-discrimination-of-black-farmers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A Small Step Forward in Addressing Historic Discrimination of Black Farmers&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,41,40,63,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}