The Biden administration made a historic $2.2 billion payout to Black and other minority farmers who faced loan discrimination from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), marking a step towards reconciling a long history of Black-owned farmland.
The payouts were made to over 23,000 farmers across the country are an “acknowledgement” of the long and documented history by the USDA toward Black farmers, Biden said in a statement. Most went to farmers in Mississippi and Alabama and ranged from $10,000 to $500,000.
