Nicodemus Kansas

The 143rd annual homecoming celebration recently took place in Nicodemus, the last remaining African American settlement west of the Mississippi River.

The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help comes too late.

Pioneers come to the west, leaving all that was familiar, to create a new community- Nicodemus, Kansas. To this day, descendants of that hardy bunch…