Organizations Filed Purposes:
The mission of the organization is to equip, educate and empower black farmer initiatives and preserve the sustainability of the farm land.
This organization educates, empowers, and assists black farmers to obtain resources to maintain sustainability.
In Spring 2020, AAI/BAF collaborated with the South Carolina Lowcountry hip hop group, Native Son, to create the anthem for our campaign, "The Land." "The Land" is our generation's love offering to the beautiful struggle to protect 1.5 million acres of Black farmlands from USDA dispossession. Our work continues to grow with Native Son with the debut of "RESTORATION: A Concert Film." The film explores southern Black agrarian stories of self-determination, custodial land ownership, and folkwit; amplifies ongoing struggles for restorative land justice in this country including the Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign; and weaves together live musical performances from Native Son and the personal narratives of Black legacy farmers and land stewards. To date, RESTORATION has been selected to screen at the Pan African Film Festival, Seattle Black Film Festival, Rhode Island Black Film Festival, Nice International Film Festival, and more.
Continued to amplify the aims of the Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign. The Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a grassroots organizing, popular education, and legal advocacy campaign to rectify the injustices of the Pigford v. Glickman (Pigford I) class action racial discrimination lawsuit. Inspired by David Walker's impassioned entreaty against the chattel enslavement of Africans in the United States, the Black Farmers' Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a polemic against yet another form of racialized capitalism-unconscionable debt. Our collective is comprised of a multigenerational tribe of farmers, attorneys, writers, heritage quilters, artists, and musicians using our diverse talents to dismantle institutional racial discrimination within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the following demands: cancellation of all USDA debts, full federal and state tax relief, return of offsets, access to land, and the establishment of a $2.5 billion restorative justice fund to regenerate the Black agricultural land base. We explore innovative collaborations that deepen the linkages of music, ecocultural traditions, and cooperative economy to protect Black landownership and stewardship, while raising community awareness, collectivism, and action.
Launched The Return of the Bees Multimedia Project traverses the history, evolution, and futurism of southern Black agrarian material culture, including fiber arts and heritage quiltmaking, while revering the culture bearers who carry these traditions through documentation and cooperative economy. Deeply inspired by the Freedom Quilting Bee paradigm-cooperative, community-centered, and self-determined, our multimedia project launched along a red clay dirt road in Alberta, Alabama.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Dekera Greene Rodriguez | Co-Founder | 40 | $17,000 |
| Tracy Mccurty | Executive Director | 40 | $17,000 |
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