Black farmers are losing ground in the fight to feed their communities, advocates say

Black farmers are losing ground in the fight to feed their communities, advocates say

More than a century of systemic land dispossession and discriminatory practices has left Black farmers with less than 0.6 percent of U.S. farmland — less than a third of the 16 million acres they operated in 1910, according to local urban farming advocates.  Alana Henry, executive director of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council, discusses the history of Black-led farming and efforts to limit it; photo by Taylor Wilmore, Startland News They gathered…