Race & Equity
For Black Farmers Who Choose Justice When the USDA is Not Enough (July 2021)
Twenty two years after the historic Pigford v. Glickman class action lawsuit was filed, the attack on Black farmers and Black land ownership remains.
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Georgia’s Black Wall Street gets an urban makeover. (June 2021)
A city planner unveils the vision that will revitalize the Greenwood Bottom community.
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Oakland’s Planterday is raising mental health awareness. (May 2021)
The mobile plant shop is using a portion of its sales to support a mental health crisis hotline in Alameda County.
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Washington Fruit Packing Workers Fight for higher pay, benefits and better working conditions. (March 2021)
This piece speaks to fruit packing workers fighting for their rights in the midst of COVID and racial justice protests.
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A Juneteenth I’ve been waiting for (June 2020)
Juneteenth has always been about much-needed conversations. This year, the volume got turned up.
On Friday morning, I left home early, got on BART, and headed to West Oakland station to join the commemoration of Juneteenth. My day started with the West Coast Port Shutdown, organized by port worker unions from San Diego to Seattle in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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