Re:sound #219 The Fighting for the Promised Land Show
Re:sound #219 The Fighting for the Promised Land Show
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This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism.
All You Need Is A _____.
by Aengus Anderson & James Ford Howell (2010 ShortDocs Challenge)
Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word “wall” without referring to Mexico.
Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism
by Tina Antolini (Gravy, 2015)
Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the course of her life. And, after that moment, her life has been one defined by the fight for black-owned farmland. It’s a fight that has included devastating racism, the biggest class action lawsuit in the history of the United States, and a high-profile firing from the USDA.
Gravy is a project of the Southern Foodways Alliance