Film Screening: Farming While Black
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2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
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Learn more about Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY, whose portrait is featured in Albany Institute of History & Art's exhibition: Americans Who Tell the Truth.
Farming While Black is a feature-length documentary film which examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
As the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice.
In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, the result of racism, discrimination, and dispossession. The film chronicles Penniman and two other Black farmers’ efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively, their work has a major impact, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.
The screening is free with museum admission, no registration required.
Run time: 75 minutes
Executive Production: Kontent Films
Director: Mark Decena
Producer: Liz Lupino Decena
Co-Producer: Lynn Kincaid Waymer
Cinematographer: Lawrence Rickford
Editor: Bernardo Josue
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