Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack sits down with Mary C. Curtis to discuss Black farmers and the USDA plan to provide debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers through the March COVID-19 relief law.

That means Black farmers who have lost 90 percent of their land in the last century, in large part because of USDA policies, may receive compensation. The administration says equity is overdue and this is just the beginning. But many white farmers and banks have objections. 

Show Notes:

• “We can’t give in to Jan. 6”
• Righting economic wrongs of the past
• The tax lady cometh
• DNC Chair Jaime Harrison
• ‘More people are afraid of the police than community violence’