House Ag Committee hearing zeroes in on discrimination of Black farmers
Participants in the hearing included Tom Vilsack, USDA secretary; John Boyd Jr.,founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association; Cornelius Blanding, executive director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives; Philip J. Haynie, chairman of the National Black Growers Council; Sedrick Row, an organic farmer from Georgia; Shirley Sherrod, executive director of the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education. Written By: Noah Fish | ×
A view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington DC, U.S. January 17, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo
A first-of-its-kind hearing took place by the U.S. House Agriculture Committee last week, detailing the longtime systemic racism against Black farmers in the country by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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