Three days before Christmas, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden s pick for U.S. agriculture secretary, convened a videoconference with nine prominent civil rights activists and advocates for Black farmers.
February 4, 2021 - 5:00pm
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Didn’t inform Black farmers of programs that could improve their farmland. Meanwhile, white farmers had few of these problems, Wright says. “That’s because of the local control, at the county level. You almost need to eliminate the county committees and local controls. Agriculture’s unique for that kind of county control, which sounds good for some folks. But not Black folk,” says Wright, who has since retired. “Local control is good, providing that you have a system of oversight to avoid having those local folk take care of themselves, their family, and their friends. In which case, Blacks have happened not to be any of the above, and they normally didn’t get services.”
Biden’s secretary of agriculture has an iffy past with minority farmers. By
2/2/2021 Lloyd Wright was hopeful Tom Vilsack would advance the plight of Black farmers during his eight-year run as USDA secretary from 2009 to 2017. Wright, though, says he was wrong, and he fears Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of Agriculture, is likely to continue that agency’s legacy of discrimination against Black farmers. “He might turn out to be an excellent secretary of agriculture for white folk, but he was not for Blacks,” says Wright, a 38-year employee of the USDA, including two years as director of Civil Rights when Bill Clinton was president.
February 4, 2021 - 5:00pm
Investments in higher education in prison provide hope for a second chance in life, help reduce recidivism, increase prosocial behaviors, and break the cycle of poverty. To investigate the transformational power of prison education programs, Western Nevada College (WNC) will be joined by “College Behind Bars” film director Lynn Novick, Bard Prison Initiative alumnus Dyjuan Tatro, Nevada Second Assistant Attorney General Christine Brady and others for a free, virtual event on Thursday, Feb. 4.
WNC’s Higher Education in Prison Program (HEPP) provides access to higher education and workforce education for the underserved population of incarcerated men at Warm Springs and Northern Nevada correctional centers and currently serves about 100 students.