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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a letter first obtained by theGrio, the nation’s four U.S. Black Senators demand answers from the Trump administration ...

The new bill could "change the trajectory of farming legacies." There was a time when Black-owned farms were booming -- before those farmers were stripped of tens of thousands of acres because of ...

Finally. As many as 68,000 African-American farmers who were the victims of racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1980s and ’90s may start getting compensation from a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Al Hooks has been a farmer all his life. “I’m 72, will be 73 in about four months,” Al said. The business of growing crops to support the family and community has been passed down ...

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 ...

Visually, Brittany Shyne's film recalls Walker Evans, politically the late Béla Tarr.

The SACP, Izwi Labantu Forum and over 400 farmers on Thursday marched to the Union Buildings demanding reforms in the agricultural sector.

The legacy of black farming runs deep in the U.S. On this Juneteenth, we're highlighting urban Black farmers planting the seeds of change in California's Central Valley. That change can be found in ...

I write today out of deep concern for the future of Black farmers in Louisiana and across the South. Congress must reject any policy — whether in the 2025 Farm Bill or the so-called Food Security and ...