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 ...

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 ...

At age 5, while most kids are learning to ride bicycles, he was learning how to ride a horse. He didn’t know it then, but ...

People such as John Moses Bonner are literally ... Boyd hopes it won't come to that. "The black farmers don't have their money and the person to grieve to is the president, a black president ...

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 ...

Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, rescinded all diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the agency on her first day in office.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

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.

Often, there is little to no proactive outreach to Black farmers. “They’re not losing money on those offices, but the money being lost is [through] the people inside those offices, servicing ...

P. Wade Ross leads a group of Black farmers and ranchers who are used to losing some---and, then, losing some. Now, they are hoping for a win. The Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Small ...

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.

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 ...