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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Food, Farming, Faith and Hip Hop; Black earth wisdom and the fight for environmental and racial justice
Description: The plight of Black farmers in America has a dark history. The trauma of stolen lands and exploited labor may explain why there are now relatively few Black and Indigenous people in farming, agriculture, or even within environmental activism. Leah Penniman is one farmer fighting to change that. Penniman explains that there’s a rising generation of Black and brown farmers reexamining their relationship to the land and reclaiming the farming and agricultural practices once held by their ancestors.  Penniman, who is the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, says that “Black farmers had already d...