Farming While Black by Leah Penniman Pirate Sourcil Paul Auster grew up playing

Paul Auster grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in B Westerns

Jules is holding a baby

change their mood or their mind

Clinging to skating--and each other--to escape their turbulent lives

She encounters shady producers

Farming While Black by Leah Penniman Pirate Sourcil Paul Auster grew up playingIn 1920, 14 percent of all land owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black peoplea loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in food apartheid neighborhoods and suffer from diet related illness. The system is built on