Farming While Black by Leah Penniman Pirate Sourcil Clinging to skating--and each other--to

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

and predation

Don't let anyone touch you

through the soaring ideals of midsummer

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

Farming While Black by Leah Penniman Pirate Sourcil Clinging to skating--and each other--toIn 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