The Virus

Our final episode of the season. The coronavirus has hit, and America is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Congress and the Trump administration rush to roll out the Paycheck Protection Program. The PPP was supposed to help small businesses and their workers. But with the system rigged to favor the rich, things quickly go wrong.

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Nate Bradford, Jr. and other Black farmers and ranchers are fighting to preserve a type of rural, Black agricultural life. But the past keeps blocking their future. In the third season of The Heist we follow Bradford’s fight to survive against the long, documented history of government discrimination against Black farmers. From The Center for Public Integrity and Pushkin Industries, New episodes drop every Tuesday in October 2023.