Black Farmers Claims Update 2024. Black and minority farmers get $2 billion in payments after usda acknowledges years of discrimination. The lawsuit came after findings that black farmers lost approximately $326 billion of land due to discrimination during the 20th century.
Through the act, congress allocated $2.2 billion for the program and directed usda to provide financial assistance to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who. Commission on civil rights has documented how usda administrators routinely denied loans to black farmers and other farmers of color for.
