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2020 Pritzker finalist Leah Penniman — “Free the people! Free the land!”
As a young Black child raised in the rural northeast, it was very difficult to understand who I was and where I belonged. Some of the children in our conservative,…
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Pritzker Finalist Clara Lee Pratt in NBC21 News: Native American votes helped secure Biden’s win in Arizona
Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to victory in a state that hadn’t supported a Democratic in…
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Pritzker Award Finalist Leah Penniman in NowThis: Here’s How Regenerative Farming Can Help Combat The Climate Crisis
Regenerative agriculture is a system of practices that focuses on soil health and increasing biodiversity — and it could help reverse the effects of climate change. ‘Human beings don’t inherently…
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Pritzker Award Finalist Leah Penniman in The New York Times: Follow these three farms during the harvest of 2020
The New York Times followed 3 small farms where they found people cultivating way more than food. Take a look at Leah Penniman, @soulfirefarm co-director and Pritzker Award finalist tackles…
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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman writes for Harper’s Bazaar: To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves
2020 Pritzker Finalist, farmer, activist, and author Leah Penniman writes about the fight for food sovereignty for Harper’s Bazaar. “I prefer the term “food apartheid,” which indicates that the vast…
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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Bay Journal: Black farmers embrace African practices as empowering
In recent years, Axum said he has noticed a “big movement” among Black farmers toward embracing organic methods. These aren’t practices borrowed from White organizations and individuals but rather from…