evidence: Black Land Loss Today: The USDA’s Disingenuous Victory Lap [...] Given the many challenges Black farmers face today – the remaining structural racism at the USDA, the ongoing pressures of federally-funded farmland consolidation, and the remaining vulnerability of heirs’ property – Black farm loss is not set to end any time soon. The federal government – having played a key role in creating the Black farm loss crisis, will have to play an even bigger role in reversing it. This must start with passing the Justice for Black Farmers Act and a nationwide Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act (UPHPA). Furthermore, the US Congress must reduce subsidies going to large farmers and provide Black farmers with restitution in the form of debt relief, compensation for lost loans and financial assistance, and land redistribution. The shattering of Black farmland ownership over the past century is yet another example in US history of those in power obstructing Black socioeconomic mobility at every turn. This great dispossession of Black farmland is ongoing, but not without resistance from Black farmers and their families, who – despite efforts by the US government, developers, violent white neighbors, and large landowners to take everything away from them – have refused to give up on their dream, an immortal dream of a people which began with the promise of "forty acres and a mule" more than 150 years ago.