CNN Business | Why a new generation of Black farmers is getting into the business

New York (CNN Business) – W. Kamau Bell visits Oklahoma to learn how politics and economic disparity has impacted family and independent farmers. Watch “United Shades of America” Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.

Visitors to the Soul Fire Farm Facebook page on Friday afternoons will find a virtual farming lesson in session.

For the past several weeks, Leah Penniman, co-director and farm manager at Soul Fire in Rensselaer County, New York, has been speaking to fellow Black farmers about their work and offering tips to viewers as part of a weekly “Ask A Sista Farmer” event.  —more—