Black Louisiana farmers' land leases are vanishing. Some say racist policies are to blame.

Black farmers and their families once owned and worked on thousands of acres of land in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish. The land has shrunk over the last several decades, and some, like Eddie Lewis III, say it stems from racist policies.

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