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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. He grows organic vegetables and industrial hemp, as well as wheat, soybeans, and corn.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. And for a few brief promising decades, Allensworth thrived in the way its founders envisioned.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism

Agriculture Informer

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

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