Artifacts housed in the Barbados Museum, such as branding irons and iron shackles, serve as stark reminders of this harrowing ...

Trio of organisations launch initiative to generate carbon credits from African cotton farming; US EPA takes wrecking ball to environmental regulation; CERAWeek: Glo ...

To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

Mali, Africa’s biggest cotton producer, plans to invest in clean energy and tackle issues like child labor and soil health to make its output more competitive in the European market. More than ...

Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans ...

African Americans were not the only ones ... Like thousands of people of the southern United States, James Yates was working in the cotton fields in Mississippi. Due to poverty and the lack ...

Desi cotton, and African cotton. Among these, American cotton accounts for 90 percent of global production, Egyptian cotton 8 percent, and Desi and African cotton each approximately 2 percent.

which is why cotton still conjures up memories of an oppressive past for many African Americans. But one man is on a mission to change that one conversation at a time. Deaon Griffin-Pressley is an ...

The 350,000-acre Grumeti reserve, abutting the Serengeti in Tanzania, is one of east African conservation’s great success ...

A Kent museum has reopened with new Eastern African and natural history exhibitions. The Powell-Cotton Museum, in Birchington-on-Sea, welcomed the public through its doors last weekend to ...