Aallyah Wright
National Rural Issues Reporter at Capital B
Rural Issues Reporter @capitalbnews 🌎 Frmr: Mississippi Today | Stateline | 2022 @maynardinst Fellow✨ Mississippi Delta 4ever.
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capitalbnews.org | Adam Mahoney |Aallyah Wright
Vera Warren-Williams started the Community Book Center in New Orleans with $300 and a dream in 1983. In the 42 years since, the Black book and clothing store went from the trunk of her car to a flagship shop and anchor of Bayou Road, a restaurant and shopping district with the city’s highest concentration of Black businesses. She has battled through several economic downturns, including the 2008 recession, and the mass destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Adam Mahoney |Aallyah Wright
Vera Warren-Williams started the Community Book Center in New Orleans with $300 and a dream in 1983. In the 42 years since, the Black book and clothing store went from the trunk of her car to a flagship shop and anchor of Bayou Road, a restaurant and shopping district with the city’s highest concentration of Black businesses. She has battled through several economic downturns, including the 2008 recession, and the mass destruction of Hurricane Katrina.
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2 weeks ago |
capitalbnews.org | Aallyah Wright
Third-generation farmer Igalious “Ike” Mills knew it was only a matter of time before a United States Department of Agriculture local office would close in his rural east Texas town. He’d heard of the ongoing closures nationwide and kept close watch on the news about President Donald Trump’s calls for tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners.
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1 month ago |
capitalbnews.org | Aallyah Wright
A promise made by former President Joe Biden to connect millions of Americans to reliable and affordable high-speed internet service may become another casualty of President Donald Trump’s campaign to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the nation.
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1 month ago |
capitalbnews.org | Aallyah Wright
Lester Bonner purchased a tractor, hay baler, and two hay combines for his 113-acre wheat farm when he learned he’d have $50,000 of his loans wiped clean as a result of a debt relief program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Many more farmers invested in their farms in anticipation of the forgiveness of loans administered by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. However, they never received it.
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RT @rolandsmartin: Black Farmers Brace for Trump’s Tariffs While Navigating USDA Office Closures https://t.co/vP518dOlcJ
"Some employees have been told to expect the department to cut back to fiscal 2019 staffing levels—which would lead to USDA slashing around 9,000 of its 98,000 employees—while others have been told there is a an overall federal workforce reduction number" https://t.co/XznmGwFYkn
In addition to Trump's tariffs, the USDA office closures will further hinder Black farmers' access to resources and federal program information, exacerbating an existing information gap due to limited outreach and distrust of agency officials. https://t.co/lktaVLyNLa
