The two young men squint into the camera and smile from beneath their baseball caps. Behind them, the cotton field sprawls into the distance, meeting the line of trees bordering the acreage in ...

Shane visits Julius Tillery's cotton farm to learn about the legacy behind the brand. Shane’s journey begins in North Carolina, where Julius Tillery – a.k.a. “The Puff Daddy of Cotton” – is a ...

Out on a rural piece of land in Lancaster, Clarence Glover stepped up to a structure that sat on a wooden pallet and was wrapped in a blue tarp. Storm clouds overhead spat out a light drizzle as ...

African-American farmers are disappearing. The legacy of structural inequality has steadily depleted their ranks. For nearly a century, racial discrimination in agriculture, exclusion from federal ...

It was nearing golden hour at Roxbury Heritage State Park on a clear evening in August just as a gathering of Black Cotton Club was getting underway. A band grooved serenely as Dzidzor, a local poet, ...

RAIN-FED cotton is the principal money crop of the black soil tracts of India 1, which are often characterized by low yields and where nitrogen alone, among the three fertilizer elements nitrogen, ...