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Local business owners glide past in big black land cruisers and range rovers.

Ward said she understands the fraught politics of the Black land return movement, given the current backlash against government equity and inclusion efforts, attacks on Black history education and repeated attempts to enact a national reparations bill into law.

“Little do they know their water starts on Black land,” he says.

This land loss is the result of many factors, which we document in our new white paper: “Black Land Loss in the United States.”

While fully repairing that damage would require a commitment from the government that seems politically unfeasible, further Black land loss is preventable, and even reversible with policies that compensate farmers who have faced discrimination in the past and that prevent it in the future by changing the culture and operations at agencies like the USDA.