When Michael Trotter Jr. and wife Tanya Trotter went to perform at the Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Festival in Austin, Texas, they were greeted by a cotton plant in their dressing room. “We all know ...

Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use daily, including blue jeans, bedsheets, paper, candles, and peanut butter. In the United States, cotton is a $7 billion ...

The War & Treaty have spent the last year gracing award show stages, garnering Grammy nominations, and even earning their first-ever platinum single. But for artists of color in the country and ...

Not exactly genetic modification, a new approach combines plant breeding and insights into cotton’s genome to help ensure you can have jeans in the future. Products derived from the cotton plant show ...

Deltapine cotton varieties are growers’ best choice for proven genetics and traits in 2026.

I was a teenager in the 1970s and just beginning my love affair with rural Arkansas. During visits to my grandparents' home in Des Arc, I enjoyed going on long drives by myself through the Grand ...

Browsing serendipity is one of the advantages of the traditional newspaper format. Pick up an old newspaper, or look at its microfilmed or digitized replica, and you'll find things you wouldn't have ...

Despite recent rainy spells, it is well-known that our islands are getting dryer every year. This means that periods of drought are getting longer and more frequent. With this in mind, we might want ...

GAFFNEY — A Cherokee County textile manufacturer where an employee was killed last month will close this summer as part of a sale that an official said has long been in the works. Carolina Cotton ...

Egyptian cotton sheets call to mind fussy hotels and royal suites — but for me, they’re most memorably tied to a very specific cultural touchpoint: Jesse Spencer’s “Sheets of Egyptian Cotton,” from ...

In a March 2018 story for The New York Times, Richard Fausset wrote about the slow death of Cotton Plant. "The town once had four cotton gins, but no more," he wrote. "The veneer mill that once ...