Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, rescinded all diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the agency on her first day in office.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 ...

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

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.

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.

Darryl Farmer, known in the Original Black Panthers of Milwaukee as 'King ... "He did not play about his people. If we would get a call saying, 'This happened, this happened,' we go right away ...

The program seeks to address the declining number of Black farmers in the Midwest, as highlighted by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farming in the Midwest and South continues to be a majority ...

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 ...

People became shareholders in shrimp ... outbreaks," said Abdul Malek, a 55-year-old farmer from Kharnia in Dumuria, Khulna. He started black tiger shrimp farming in 1998 on 50 acres of leased ...

Sparta residents have been fighting to keep their land, but a judge rules it can be seized by a railroad that's run by an ...

The agency didn't respond to questions about the missing payment data. Across the nation, about $2 billion in payments went to about 43,000 recipients, including 38,263 people identified as Black or ...