Third-generation farmer Igalious “Ike” Mills knew it was only a matter of time before a United States Department of ...

Another 20,000 people who planned to start a farm but ... after a long history of the USDA refusing to process loans from Black farmers, approving smaller loans compared to white farmers, and ...

Champaign, IL (Investigate Midwest) – Guess is a full-time truck driver and his wife, Stephanie, works at a bank. Oftentimes, money from their day jobs goes back to their 19-acre farm.

In 1910, about 14 percent of U.S. farmers were Black, owning more than 16 million acres. Now, according to the latest Census of Agriculture, only one in 100 farmers is Black, owning less than 5 ...

Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, rescinded all diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the agency on her first day in office. She also canceled more than $132 million in ...

OK, I’m lying?” Crockett said. “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a ...

The Black Farmer is planning to open two new farm shops in London ... “We probably want to get to the point where we’ve got three or four and then find people that will take it on and bring the same ...

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.

1999 settlement in a case between Black farmers and the USDA identified over 22,000 people who had faced discrimination, one of the largest civil rights class-action settlements in U.S. history.