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Black Couple From Virginia Purchase Home With 90 Acres

From the 1920s to today, the percentage of Black Americans and other minority landowners has dropped from 14% to less than 2% nationwide. Here’s how real estate expert Chris O’Neal and his wife, Sabrina, hope to change that. Nationwide — Ten years ago, less than 4 percent of minorities owned rural land, according to a report Read More…

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Jeremiah Armstead From Homelessness To College Bound

Jeremiah Armstead, a 19-year-old teen from Los Angeles who was homeless while in high school, has been accepted at Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, and will play basketball for its team. “Any type of adversity that I went through, for the most part, it motivated me and pushed me,” Armstead said he felt Read More…

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Chinese Investors Own About 192,000 Acres in U.S.

Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion, according to Politico. While Chinese land ownership in the U.S. is less than that of other foreign nations, the growth in Chinese land ownership is part of an overall trend in China rapidly buying up other country’s farmland over more Read More…

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Cannabis Dictionary

Cannabis Terms A-Z DON EGGERT Ever wonder what a vaporizer is? How about kief?  We’ve compiled a glossary of terms, courtesy of our friends at Leafly and the Providence Journal, to help you better understand what all the buzz is about. As recreational marijuana legalization efforts continue in Vermont, we’ll be updating this page with new terms. Aroma The general smell Read More…