“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century."

Rod Bradshaw, a Black farmer in Kansas, Jan. 13, 2021, is concerned that systemic discrimination by government agencies, farm lenders and the courts have reduced the numbers of U.S. Black farmers from about a million in 1920 to fewer than 50,000. (AP)