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  • How John Deere is helping Black farmers and their descendants take back unjustly seized land

    05/15/2021 6:04:45 AM PDT · by snarkytart · 50 replies
    CNN ^ | 6:32 AM ET, Fri May 14, 2021 | Chauncey Alcorn
    New York (CNN Business)It's been nine years since Michael Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, nearly lost a major part of his family's legacy. He's still fighting to regain full control of it. In 2012, the 57-year-old married father of four, who is Black, found out someone he'd never met named James E. Deshler II was suing his family members to force them to sell their portion of the 127 acres of Barlow Bend, Alabama, farmland that they'd inherited from Robinson's late grandfather, Joe Ely. The local county auditor's website determined last year that the land is worth more than $212,000. The...