Black Farmers Lawsuit 2025. The biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial. The lawsuit involved claims by african american farmers that the usda had discriminated against them between 1981 and 1996 based on race, wrongfully denying them farm loans, loan servicing, and other benefits, or giving them loans with unfair terms.
Black farmers got $2 billion in usda payments to address discrimination in farm loans. โthe national black farmers association has worked tirelessly for decades to address false and misleading information regarding black farmers and the pigford class action lawsuit and more recently in re black farmers discrimination litigation after the may 11, 2012, filing deadline,โ said boyd.