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Black Farmers Look to Cuba for Equality

By AAN Staff
april 16, 2003  10:34 am
Black Farmers Look to Cuba for Equality
Maryland's African-American farmers, after more than a century of institutional discrimination at home, hope a new deal with Fidel Castro will bring in the long green. Ericka Blount Danois follows a delegation led by John Boyd Jr. to Havana, where a deal selling produce to Cuba -- with no middlemen taking a cut, no competition -- could bring U.S. black farmers about $12 million a year. "We have been trying to do business with other countries for a long time, to become independent from the federal government," Boyd tells Danois. "The federal government has shown us historically that they don't want to do business with us."
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