Black Farmer Fund was created to address the long-standing gap in agricultural capital access. A nonprofit, community-led investment organization based in the U.S. Northeast, the fund supports Black ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a cable news contributor and professor of journalism. In a largely unexpected announcement during the last week of July, the ...

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 ...

When farmer-activists Olivia Watkins and Karen Washington met at a conference in 2017, they recognized there weren’t any programs geared towards Black farmers that addressed their economic needs. So ...

This story is part of a multipart series examining the disparate impacts on Black farmers. Lucious Abrams is the third generation to take over the family Georgia farm, an operation that has long grown ...

The number of self-identified Black farmers in the United States has dwindled over the last century, in part because of overt discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency is the ...