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Outreach Supports Black Rural Landowners in Northeast
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Black land owners account for just ~1% of private Northeast forestland. For Sydney Antonio, a love of forests took root during childhood summers visiting upstate New York, where she and her cousins explored family-owned property covered by red oak, white ash, hard maple and other trees. Today, she and her husband, Evon Antonio, sustainably…
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Black Land Matters: Black Farming and Food Security Webinar Recording Now Available
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Recently, our director Anu Rangarajan moderated a conversation between Natalie Baszile, filmmaker and author of the novel, Queen Sugar, and Karen Washington, co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS), for a Rural Humanities webinar. In the half-century following the American Civil War, Black farmers amassed approximately 15 million acres of land. By the end of the…
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