Cotton, one of the staple crops grown in North Carolina throughout history, is still grown in fields all around Tillery, NC “40 Acres and a Mule” is what many emancipated slave descendants and sharecroppers were promised during the New Deal,…

There are Black farmers losing land faster than Monsanto can split open seeds; and then there are Black farmers building up land with money handed to them by Wal-Mart. This is the furrow we find ourselves in right now as…