My name is Shirlette Ammons. I am a poet, storyteller, and musician.
Most importantly, I’m the granddaughter of a Black farmer.
I traveled across 7 states, including my native North Carolina.
I roamed the fields, & farmland, sat on the porches, and ate at the dinner tables of some of the tens of thousands of Black farmers across the country who were claimants in Pigford vs Glickman, once the largest class action class action lawsuit in US history.
With TENDING, our goal is to use the historic Pigford case to try and answer this question:
Why has the United States, its federal and its local governments, worked so strategically to keep Black people from owning and stewarding land?
