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Federal judge grants halt to USDA debt relief for farmers of color A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday night struck a new blow against the Agriculture Department’s historic debt relief program for farmers of color by issuing the first preliminary injunction amid a series of court battles. The order prohibits USDA from distributing any Read More…
Black Farmers
Banks Fight $4 Billion Debt Relief Plan for Black Farmers Lenders are pressuring the Agriculture Department to give them more money, saying quick repayments will cut into profits Handy Kennedy, a farmer in Cobbtown, Ga., and founder of a cooperative of Black farmers. Debt relief approved by Congress in March aims to make amends for Read More…
Gucci: Is It Worth The Price Of 5 Car Payments
A Gucci bag that exists solely in the virtual world managed to sell for more money than the IRL thing. On the gaming platform Roblox, one user coughed up 350,000 Robux — or roughly $4,115 — for a Gucci Dionysus bag, even though it has no monetary value outside the Roblox world (the real purse Read More…
Attorney Greg Francis Who Won $1.25 Billion For Black Farmers
Attorney Greg Francis, a champion for the rights of Black Americans, led and won the largest civil rights settlement in the history of civil justice in the U.S., demanding justice for 33,000 Black farmers. It was a settlement of $1.25 billion dollars. “The one thing I learned from that case is that all those farmers Read More…
