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WREG investigates more complaints against Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association

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MEMPHIS, Tenn -- The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association has taken a new fight for farmers to court. Last summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid out $2.2 billion to Black farmers who faced discrimination from its agency in the past. However, BFAA's President Thomas Burrell said that's not nearly enough.  They sued the government, saying the relief program should have included heirs. “Now all of a sudden USDA is saying inherit…

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WREG investigates more complaints against Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association

MEMPHIS, Tenn -- The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association has taken a new fight for farmers to court. Last summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid out $2.2 billion to Black farmers who faced discrimination from its agency in the past. However, BFAA's President Thomas Burrell said that's not nearly enough.  They sued the government, saying the relief program should have included heirs. “Now all of a sudden USDA is saying inherit…

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Descendants of Black farmers are still fighting the USDA over past discrimination

The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is suing the government on behalf of Mary Ferguson, a Memphis resident with deep roots in Bolivar, Tennessee, over discriminatory practices her father experienced as a farmer. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Mary Ferguson can still remember the farm where she was raised with six siblings near Bolivar, Tennessee; how her father worked the sprawling land and raised horses, chickens, goats and ca…

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