Sentences with phrase «white farmers after»

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Set in rural Mississippi before, during, and after WWII, the film inspects the lives of white farmers and black sharecroppers whose lives clash when their respective sons return from war.

After all, about 75,000 hectares of productive land was owned by white farmers who make up only 1.5 percent of the population.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

After deliberating for 13 hours, an all - white jury in Battleford, Saskatchewan found Gerald Stanley, a farmer from rural Saskatchewan, not guilty in the 2016 death of 22 - year - old Colten Boushie («Boushie»), a resident of the Red Pheasant First Nation.