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Black farmers fear foreclosure as debt relief remains frozen
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Black farmers fear foreclosure as debt relief remains frozen

Lawsuits from white farmers have blocked $4 billion of pandemic aid that was allocated to Black farmers in the American Rescue Plan.
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