Farming While Black: Film Screening

In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, as a result of racism, discrimination, and dispossession. This visually eloquent film chronicles author of the book FARMING WHILE BLACK, Leah Penniman, and two other Black farmers’ efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively, their work has a major impact as leaders in the sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.