Following the first ever North Carolina Black Farmer Lobby Day in the 2023 legislative session, in late July, SiX co-hosted Seeds of Empowerment: Cultivating Black Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture, a tour of Black-owned farms with Senator Natalie Murdock and Representative (and farmer!) Ray Jeffers in the Durham/Raleigh area. North Carolina legislators joined advocates for a…
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Last week, 57 Texas legislators left the state and headed to Washington, D.C., to defend the freedom to vote. After Texas Governor Abbott called a special session to advance bills…
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The widespread and disastrous impacts of climate change are already here, wreaking havoc on our urban and rural communities and farmers. Most disaster policy is recovery focused but there…
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While the U.S. legacy of historic and systemic discrimination against Black Americans is well-known in housing, education, healthcare, and employment, the ways in which Black farmers have been discriminated…
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In the last year, I have lived through four unprecedented climate-related crises in my community – all of which were in the last nine months, on top of the…
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