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Frank Lloyd Wright Murder House Two Hours North of Rockford
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Frank Lloyd Wright and his unique houses and living quarters in Rockford and the Chicago suburbs have been well documented. But have you ever heard of the Taliesin property up north in Spring Green, Wisconsin? This story is creepy.
Wright disappeared to Europe in 1911 after having an affair. Eleven years late, Frank returned to the U.S. and the Midwest. He built a home on land owned by his mother, called Taliesin in Wisconsin.
In August of 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright headed to Chicago for business, leaving his family behind in Spring Green. He received word of a fire and that he needed to return to Wisconsin. This is where it gets crazy.
Bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
The Senate-passed American Rescue Plan aims to compensate Black farmers for systemic racism.
By Laura ReileyThe Washington Post
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John Boyd checks soybeans in Baskerville, Va., in January 2019. He is a fourth-generation Black farmer. Melina Mara/The Washington Post
WASHINGTON A little-known element of President Biden’s massive stimulus relief package passed by the Senate on Saturday would pay billions of dollars to disadvantaged farmers – a provision that would benefit Black farmers in a way that some experts say no legislation has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
iStock: simazoran Congress could pass as early as today one of the most sweeping relief programs for minority farmers in the nation’s history, through a provision of President Biden’s pandemic stimulus bill. Although the landmark legislation, which would cancel $4 billion worth of debt, seemed to emerge out of nowhere, it actually is the result of more than 20 years of organizing by Black farmers. The Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act will forgive 120% of the value of loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or from private lenders and guaranteed by the USDA, to “Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic farmers and other agricultural producers of color,” according to a release from the bill’s sponsors, Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.