After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people…
A Year Later, It’s Still Impossible to Tell How Many Food Workers Are Contracting COVID-19
An aerial view shows the Farmer John slaughterhouse, near the Los Angeles River, after 153 workers tested positive for COVID-19, on May 26, 2020 in Vernon, California. David McNew/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story…
Biden’s Big Jobs Plan Is Really a Climate Bill. But It Left Out Farming.
This is your food system on climate change. Jevtic/iStock/Getty Plus Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.An ambitious climate bill lurks within the sprawling $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released by the Biden administration Wednesday. With its…
White Farmers Got 97 Percent of Last Year’s Ag Bailout. Now Some Are Mad Black Farmers Are Getting Debt Relief.
Airing their grievances: White farmers dish to Fox News about being excluded from government support.Fox News/screenshot Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill set aside $5 billion in aid, mainly debt…
A COVID Outbreak at a California Meatpacking Plant Started a Year Ago—and Never Went Away
A woman wears a facemask while walking past the Farmer John Slaughterhouse in Los Angeles, CA. Frederic J. Brown/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network.…
$5 Billion of the Stimulus Bill Seeks to Undo Damage Done to Farmers of Color
Virginia farmer John Boyd drives his tractor near the the Capitol in Washington in 2010.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The US Department of Agriculture exists in part to help farmers “guard against…