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Black News Channel: Black Farmers Bouncing Back After Discriminatory Practices by USDA Nearly Eliminated Them
January 7, 2022

Black News Channel’s “The World Tonight” looks at the state of Black-owned farming. The eight-minute segment features an interview with [...]

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Domtar Donates $3,000 to Sustainable Forestry & Land Retention Project
December 2, 2021

RICH SQUARE, N.C., December 1, 2021—The Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention Project (SFLRP) announced today that it has received a [...]

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Fighting Black Land Loss Helps Birds, Too
October 18, 2021

By Xander Peters, Reporter Audubon magazine, Fall 2021 (Posted with permission) Efforts to reform heirs’ property laws are expanding access [...]

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Fourtee Acres Farm Shows Power Of Legacy
October 11, 2021

The Carolinian Newspaper October 7, 2021 By Tyria McCray, Staff Writer   One word, Legacy. That alone encompasses Fourtee Acres [...]

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Virtual conference for region’s forest landowners scheduled for Oct. 26-27
October 1, 2021

AULANDER, N.C., Oct. 1, 2021 – Forest landowners in northeastern North Carolina have the opportunity in late October to learn [...]

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Black US farmers awaiting billions in promised debt relief
September 1, 2021

By ROXANA HEGEMAN and ALLEN G. BREED for the Associated Press September 1, 2021 AP News website AP YouTube video [...]

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Biden Administration to Invest $67 Million to Help Heirs Resolve Land Ownership and Succession Issues
July 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2021 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced during a press conference with U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock, [...]

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In the U.S. South, a forestry project helps Black families keep their land
June 8, 2021

by Carey L. Biron | Thomson Reuters Foundation June 7, 2021 Southern program aims to turn around a century-long trend that [...]

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Why stepped-up basis is important for maintaining family forests
May 25, 2021

In this commentary published in The Hill — a policy-oriented news outlet in Washington, D.C. — author Thomas Straka warns [...]

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The fight for Black farmers comes to Washington
March 29, 2021

POLITICO Dispatch is a daily audio report through which POLITICO’s journalists “pull back the curtain on politics and policy.” In [...]