Black + Green Agenda

Today our spotlight is on Dimakatso Sekhoto. We are thankful to all of the women across the globe who are fighting and working toward fairness in all things agriculture.

Dimakatso Sekhoto is making all the right moves in the agriculture sector. She is one of five South Africans being celebrated for her successes in the agriculture industry. In her work as a farmer, Dimakatso sees a great need in young farmers and she has taken it upon herself to assist them in whatever ways she can. "A lot of people don't realise that there are so many youngsters already participating in agriculture," she says; "I've been in the industry for seven years so all the work that I keep doing, I want to also share with those that I can." Dimakatso's advice for young people who are a part of or are interested in the farming industry are:

▪️ Join a community of like-minded people.
▪️ Do your research thoroughly.
▪️ Find your niche and run with it.

For more information Dimakatso and her work in South Africa visit her website at http://growthshoot.co.za/.

Opinion: Black mothers expected to fare worse in pandemic

ajc.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that about 700 women die from complicati...

Hi Tribe,

While we were excited to meet and fellowship with all of you today at 5:30pm for our first Virtual Village Gathering, due to unforeseen reasons, we will be moving it to Thursday, April 30th at 5:30pm.

For those of you who weren't able to register for the April 23rd date, please go to linktr.ee/ngpblackgreen to sign up. We will see you next week.

Black Farmers are Earth Day! We are Environmentalists! We are the Keepers of the Land!

“The average full-time white farmer made $17,190 in farm income in 2017, while the average full-time African-American farmer made $2,408... In 2012, most African-American farmers owned operations that were less than 180 acres.African-American farmers make up less than 2 percent of all farmers in the United States….This decline is the direct result of discriminatory lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from 1910 to 2007, often because they lacked access to loans or insurance needed to sustain their businesses.”

In 1910 Black Farmers held title to more than 16 million acres of farmland, in 2012 we owned less than 180 acres.

This is why we VOTE, because if not we lose our land, our history and our sense of dignity!

Follow the Black + Green Agenda for more information on economic injustices, the plight of the black farmers and to stay informed on how you can get involved.


Black Farmers are Earth Day! We are Environmentalists! We are the Keepers of the Land!




Source: https://psmag.com/news/african-american-farmers-make-up-less-than-2-percent-of-all-us-farmers

Photo Credit: Black Farmers Network

“Earth’s Ozone Layer Is Healing And Global Air Currents Shifting Back To Normal. We all know that the Earth’s ozone layer has a major impact on the climatic experiences on the planet.

Studies now suggests that the reversing conditions or in more optimistic words, the healing of the Earth, can be accredited to the Montreal Protocol signed by the world leaders back in 1987. The pact directed nations across the globe to stop using ozone depleting substances (ODSs) for several applications. The correlation between the pact and the reversing jet stream migration and weather patterns is a terrific example of how nations across the globe can collectively make an impact on reducing the harm done to the environment. Once widely used in refrigeration and electrical components, the reduction in the use of ozone depleting substances has let the ozone layer heal over the Earth and humans on the whole can take the credit for this.” - Sarthak Dogra, India Times

We salute all our of Black women organizers in the rural south on the front lines.

Today we are calling on the spirit of Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) she was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades. In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr.

She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses, whom she first mentored as leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).[1][2]

We thank you Ella Baker for all you have done for the world and our communities. This is what organizing looks like!

New Orleans has emerged as one of the country’s coronavirus hotspots, with a death rate per-capita double that of New York City, according to a troubling new report.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards attributed his state’s troubling death rates to the prevalence of other health conditions among residents, according to the report. The state sees high rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease.

“We have more than our fair share of people who have the comorbidities that make them especially vulnerable,” Edwards told the New York Post.

Visit linktr.ee/ngpblackgreen to read more from the .

from New Georgia Project. The Georgia has postponed the once again. The new date is June 9th. Read more below for other date changes.

UPDATE: The Georgia Secretary of State has announced that they will be further delaying the primaries. As a result, the voter registration deadline is now May 11th and early voting will begin on May 18th.

Visit linktr.ee/newgeorgiaproject to read their full statement.

Dr. Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, associate professor of epidemiology at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University, said people in Georgia’s rural areas could be infected and not know it yet.

Fung, who also lives and works in rural southeast Georgia, said people in less-populated parts of the state face different challenges than big city dwellers. People there tend to be older, poorer and more likely to face chronic health problems. They’re also farther away from health care.

, GA, a city in Dougherty County is now being deemed a hotspot for the COVID-19 outbreak. As of noon today, Dougherty County has reported 267 confirmed cases of and 3 deaths. City officials have also expressed a fear that the speed at which the virus is spreading will overwhelm their medical facilities.

Tribe, let's keep Albany in our prayers.

EcoWatch

Less traffic, lower air pollution due to COVID-19 shutdown...social distancing has been away of life for have and have nots.

ECOWATCHER SILVER LINING NEWS OF THE WEEK

From his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( ), founding of the Black Leadership Conference, protests against apartheid and environmental injustices, Reverend Joseph Lowery was a man dedicated to the betterment of humankind. We grieve the passing of a civil, human and environmental rights activist and leader. Rest in Peace Reverend Joseph Lowery.

@ Georgia

In April of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a group of striking sanitation workers. "We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through."
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Two months prior, two Memphis garbage collectors were crushed to death by a sanitation truck. This event would serve as the basis for African-Americans mobilizing national and broad-based campaigns against and .
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While the advocated for better working conditions, it also highlighted the effects that play a part in how African-American communities in the are adversely affected by waste, trash dumps and more. Its effects can be seen throughout other environmental justice movements to this day.
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Visit linktr.ee/ngpblackgreen to read more about the Memphis Sanitation Strike and to sign up for updates.
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Not new to Environmental Justice, true to this movement! Sharecropper’s granddaughter it’s in my DNA.

The education begins ...

04-03-15 The Ei Urban Ag Tours started at the Good Samaritan Farm with an educational overview by Caroline Leake, Southeastern Horticultural Society executive director, to the tour group. Picture clockwise from bottom left: Valerie Rawls (Fulton County), Caroline, Boyd Leake (Community Environmental) and Kim Charick (EPA).

Joe Madison - "The Black Eagle"

Thank you Mr. Frank for your role in the fight...

ON THIS DAY: In 1938, Mayor Maynard Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas. He was Atlanta’s first black mayor and the first black mayor of any major city in the south. He would have been 82 years old today.

The Black Belt South, sometimes called the Old South, consists of a crescent of over 600 counties stretching across the Old South and historic plantation states of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Other such counties can be found in Oklahoma and Kentucky.

What is the Black Belt
of Georgia?

Calling on the spirit of Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) she was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades. In New York City and the South, she worked alongside some of the most noted civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses, whom she first mentored as leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).[1][2]

Deep Canvass Voter Registration Training...
This is how we do it... VOTE
Thank you Brandon B. Brown and Mr. Frank Williams.

to our Deep Canvass training at Fort Valley State University. Deep Canvassing is a method used to have in-depth conversations with voters where voters are asked to share their personal experiences around current issues.

For anyone interested in volunteering or learning more NGP Action Fund, click here: http://ow.ly/3xgC50yF9Sq

Deep canvassing training Fort Valley State University. Mobilizing the foot soldiers for justice!
Thank you Mr. Frank Williams and Brandon Brown for your leadership. Voter registration and Deep Canvasing in the rural Black Belt in South GA✊🏽

Lifting As They Climb
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The courageous Black woman activist Fannie Lou Hammer in the rural Black Belt who spoke “truth” to the oppressive systemic issues we are currently experiencing today. Affordable housing, healthcare, poverty and economic inequities.

"Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." - Fannie Lou Hamer
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