Elaine massacre: how a Black labor movement was met with a violent white mob – 360 video

In 1919, white mobs and federal troops killed hundreds of Black residents - and America has tried to forget the story

Nearly a century and a half after the end of Reconstruction and the emergence of Jim Crow in the US south, a debate is raging over a Biden administration plan to forgive loans for Black and Latino farmers. Rural whites and lending banks are protesting against what right-leaning Americans consider reverse racism", ignoring decades of discrimination and violence against communities of color working in agriculture. Eventually a federal judge put the plan on hold.