The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit.
and other Black people killed by police, stems from congressional approval of $5 billion in debt relief for thousands of farmers of color. The money was included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package in 2021.
In a statement, the USDA said that litigation likely would have continued for years if they hadn’t changed the law. Boyd, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat on his 1,500-acre farm in Baskerville, Virginia, said the federal government sent letters to minority farmers asking them to sign up for the payments, and it should have moved faster to provide the financial help. By changing the rules after farmers sent back their signed documents, the government violated a contract, Boyd said.
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