In 2004, as he signed the Executive Order creating the 12-county Black Belt Action Commission, Governor Bob Riley said to the Tuscaloosa News, “The Black Belt has been studied and studied…some might ...

Lloyd Wright isn’t shocked that the United States Department of Agriculture is reversing a 35-year-old policy meant to help Black farmers in favor of a race-neutral approach. But the 84-year-old, who ...

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. Farmer John ...

Aug. 23, 2002 — -- When John Boyd is not tending to his chickens, tobacco, grain and cattle at home in Mecklenberg County, Va., he's often working at his other job — fighting for the survival of ...

John Boyd, president and founder of the National Black Farmers Association, also decried the Trump White House not inviting Black farmers to Monday’s roundtable. The Trump administration announced on ...

NEW ORLEANS - James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year. The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels ...

BOYDTON, Virginia (Reuters) -As a fourth generation farmer, Virginia resident John Boyd Jr typically spends the busy spring season prepping his land to plant sweet corn seeds and soybeans. But Boyd, ...

Farmers say laws to rein in laborers unduly harsh, threaten their livelihood. July 12, 2011— -- Civil rights attorneys and activists have sued to block an Alabama law that they claim would usurp ...

Black farmers confront stiff challenges to sustainability ...

NACOGDOCHES — On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he announced an end to all federally supported diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The implications of this decision have been ...

The Trump administration announced on Monday that American farmers will receive $12 billion in relief aid as they struggle to keep their farms afloat amid rising costs and a decline in markets. The ...