2023-05-03 01:32
Some Black farmers worry they could be left out of federal debt relief programs
ABC News (KEYSVILLE, Ga.) -- For nearly three decades, Lucious Abrams says he has gotten letters from the United States Department of Agriculture promising to wipe out his debt --but for him and other Black farmers in the country, receiving relief from the federal government has been a difficult process. Every morning in the rural town of Keysville, Georgia, the sun rises over 600 acres of farmland that has belonged to Abrams' family for three generations. It is now planting season, typically the time when he would start tending to crops, but on this farm, he says nothing is operational.

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