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 ...

HIGH POINT — The High Point Farmers Market will highlight the importance of supporting Black farmers at a special event on Sunday. The event, to be held at Mendenhall Station from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...