This is the first story in Capital B’s “Gatekeepers of the Land,” a multipart series that explores a small but powerful ...

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 ...

The fledgling Catholic farming program of the Edmundite Misisons has distributed $78,000 to 19 farmers in central Alabama to ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all heard the rumors of foreign interests buying up millions of acres of American farmland. In fact, over 45 million acres of U.S. farmland—nearly the size of half of California—are now owned by ...

How Trump could ‘dismantle’ decades of work to fix discrimination against Black farmers - After decades of discrimination ...

With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, Demetrius Hunter saw a crisis in his community only worsen. And so he had a choice. He could open a new grocery store in a part of Raleigh where residents ...