Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the course of her life. And, after that moment, her life has been one defined by the fight for black-owned farmland. In this episode of Gravy, one woman’s story of farming and race, which taps into the dramatic decline of African American farmers in the U.S., and how the USDA was complicit in the loss of millions of acres of their land.

Gravy Audio Archive