Victoria’s Secret has created a new partnership with a Black-owned cotton farm, Bridgeforth Farms, in north Alabama. The initiative is meant to advance diverse suppliers for the large retailer’s ...
As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential and the historical weight of slavery—and the trauma they carry. The Bajan government, in ...
The lawmaker said the Founding Fathers considered slavery a "necessary evil." Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., defended controversial comments he made over the weekend after coming under fire for claiming ...
Twitter erupts as allegations surrounding the senator’s family and their connection to slavery emerge as a reason why he opposes ‘the 1619 Project’ curriculum Loading the player... Sen. Tom Cotton ...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., came under fire over the weekend for comments he made in an interview published Sunday, in which he said that the country's Founding Fathers believed enslaving ...
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas described slavery as a "necessary evil" in his ongoing effort to prevent US schools from teaching the 1619 Project, an initiative from The New York Times that ...
MAYAPUR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Wearing thick gloves and a shawl wrapped around her face, Kanchen Kanjarya is busily picking cotton in the midday sun on her small farm in Mayapur in ...
In the last fortnight, I rode by a farm in south Georgia where cotton was making its way toward harvest. It takes 200 days for cotton to mature into the fluffy white stuff which is most valuable to ...
NMAF copy 39088016107369 gift of Maria Goodwin. "Worse Than Slavery" is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era - and beyond. Southern ...