{"id":19525,"date":"2018-06-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=78a3c708e2df4c2cab60fe6edc1cbf13"},"modified":"2018-06-16T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T07:00:00","slug":"losing-ground-rebroadcast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/06\/16\/losing-ground-rebroadcast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing ground (rebroadcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>This episode was originally broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/episodes\/losing-ground\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >July 1, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Picture an American farmer. Chances are, the farmer you\u2019re imagining is white \u2013 more than 9 out of 10 American farmers today are. But historically, African Americans played a huge role in agriculture. The nation\u2019s economy was built largely on black farm labor: in bondage for hundreds of years, followed by a century of sharecropping and tenant farming. <br>\n<br>\nIn the early 1900s, African American families owned one-seventh of the nation\u2019s farmland, 15 million acres. A hundred years later, black farmers own only one-quarter of the land they once held and now make up less than 1 percent of American farm families.<br>\n<br>\nThe federal government has admitted it was part of the problem. In 1997, a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture said discrimination by the agency was a factor in the decline of black farms. A landmark class-action lawsuit on behalf of black farmers, Pigford v. Glickman, was settled in 1999, and the government paid out more than $2 billion as a result. But advocates for black farmers say problems persist.<br>\n<br>\nOn this episode of Reveal, reporter John Biewen of \u201cScene on Radio\u201d tells the story of a black farmer who says the USDA treated him unfairly because of his race.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Don\u2019t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/stories\/246305\">Reveal<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This episode was originally broadcast July 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Picture an American farmer. Chances are, the farmer you\u2019re imagining is white \u2013 more than 9 out of 10 American farmers today are. But historically, African Americans played a huge role in ag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,4174,879,4808,4809,1077,4175,3234,4177,4810,296,2675,4182,632],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19526,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19525\/revisions\/19526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}