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DWIGHT HOWARD AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
DIR By: The Referee
Date: July 19, 2020, 12:50 pm
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Agricultural acumen-
Dwight Howard owns a home on a plot of land encompassing more
than 700 acres in north Georgia. And on that land he has a farm
where he keeps animals, including cows and pigs, and grows
crops.
The Emergency Land Fund was created in 1972 to reverse the trend
of descreasing black ownership of lands in the rural South. The
records of the fund include correspondence (carbons and
photostatics copies primarily), mostly outgoing but some
incoming. Other record types include agenda, studies and
reports, memoranda, financial records, and news clippings.
Topics contained in the records include the effect of the
construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on black
ownership of farms in Alabama and information about the National
Association of Landowners, which has many branches in the South.
Groups represented in the records are Agricultural Teams, Inc,
Farmers Home Administration, Ford Administration, Southern
Agricultural Corporation, Southern Regional Council, and the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Names in the
collection include Benjamin Hooks, Maynard Jackson, and
Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio. Major correspondents are
Robert S. Browne and Joseph F. Brooks. Browne was the first
president of the fund and later chairman of the board. The
positive impact ELF had on rural black landowners, taking the
form of organized networks challenging the discriminatory and
land grabbing practices of both public and private sector
actors. Robert S. Browne was a Man ahead of his time and a giant
in the eyes of many. With training in economics from the
University of Chicago and the London School of Economics, Bob
Browne founded three organizations that served as critical,
radical voices around economic issues. The Black Economic
Research Center founded in 1969 sought to pull in other black
economists for black economic development projects, and it
published the Review of Black Political Economy. The Emergency
Land Fund founded in 1971 fought to protect black land ownership
and reverse its decline, especially in the rural South. Also in
1971 he founded the Twenty-First Century Foundation to “promote
strategic black philanthropy.” He helped organize the 1967
National Conference on Black Power and presented proposals at
the 1972 National Black Political Convention for black economic
empowerment.
He wants to give community youths a hands-on experience manning
a farm themselves.
"I want to teach these kids about agriculture, how to use the
different utensils on the farm," he said. "How to grow, plant,
cultivate these different seeds and stuff like that. At my house
this summer, I spent some time teaching my kids how to do a lot
of different things, and we want to take that same concept and
use it with these kids in the inner city."
History lessons
The other area Howard's Breathe Again initiative will focus on
is giving Black community members a current-day sense of self
and empowerment by offering education on their past.
"We also are going to be teaching the laws and the rights and
the history of Black people to these kids," Howard said. He has
already shared some of these stories on his Instagram, from a
post about an all-Black professional baseball team, the Cuban
Giants, formed in the 1880s to another post about the first
African American musicians to hit the mainstream in the early
1900s.
"Giving them some history," Howard said. "Some things that they
probably never would have thought about or known, because they
were not taught in books."
Lakers coach Frank Vogel said Saturday his team hasn't discussed
any group demonstrations for when games begin, and that the
Lakers have a national television audience to share their
messages, including Howard's. "But I do anticipate having those
types of conversations," he said.
For Howard, it will be a chance to keep his mission on track.
"A lot of people are paying attention to everything that's going
on in the bubble and with all the negativity that can be running
rampant around our world, we want to give them some positive
insight and basically some positivity during this time," he
said. "So that's what I've been doing in this bubble to try to
keep myself and my teammates in a great place."
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