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John Munson/Cornell University Nfamara Badjie (left) and Moustapha Diedhiou weed the fields at the Badjies rice farm in Ulster Park, NY. Black farming and food security topic of next Rural Humanities webinar February 24, 2021 As part of a conversation on Black land ownership, farming and food security, Rural Humanities will offer a webinar, “Black Land Matters: A Rural Humanities Webinar on Black Farming and Food Security,” on March 4 at 5:00 p.m. The event is free and open to all; registration prior to the event is recommended. The webinar will feature Natalie Baszile, filmmaker and author of the novel Queen Sugar, and Karen Washington, farmer and co-owner at Rise & Root Farm in Chester, New York, and activist and co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS). Their discussion will be moderated by Anu Rangarajan, director of the Cornell Small Farms Program. The panelists will discuss how discriminatory practices at the national and local levels, in ....