Comment on Tom Vilsack’s nomination reopens old wounds for Black farmers

Tom Vilsack’s nomination reopens old wounds for Black farmers

Three days before Christmas, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. agriculture secretary, convened a videoconference with nine prominent civil rights activists and advocates for Black farmers.Vilsack mostly listened.What call participants wanted, first and foremost, was an acknowledgment that the Agriculture Department had marginalized and systematically discriminated against Black farmers for decades.

 

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