HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - America has a complicated history with cotton. Before the civil war, the plant brought great prosperity to the country accounting for more than half its exports.

Many Black farmers are drawn to small-scale ... targeted communities who had a long history with growing rice and cotton in Africa. Daboiku grew up in Ironton, in Appalachian Ohio, and said ...

says the nation’s Black farmers, who historically have earned less and owned smaller plots of land, feel these financial strains most acutely. For years, Livingstone considered herself a success ...

Cotton farmers are in the trenches of nurturing their high-intensive crop. For Georgia farmers, extremely wet conditions created a slow start, but as the crop popped up, farmers like the ...

A LOCAL GROUP IS CELEBRATING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF BLACK FARMERS TONIGHT. THIS COMES AS THE GROUPS FACE MASSIVE SETBACKS. KMBC NINE TERISA WHITE OUTLINES THE CHALLENGES. 1.4% OF ALL FARMERS IN ...

In an achievement of sorts, two farmers in Dharwad district have successfully grown rare yellow colour watermelon in black cotton soil which fruit is, otherwise, cultivated in red and loamy soil.

As of July 2024, the settlement money is gone. Some Black farmers told Channel 2′s Tom Jones an organization that promised to help them get that settlement money, instead got them nothing.