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Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

 In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000.  "We Are Each Other's Harvest" explores this crisis, through the farmers’ personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The "Returning Generation"—young farmers, who are

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Some of the spring’s most provocative business titles address changes caused by the pandemic and by technologies such as blockchain.

Listen 10 min MORE “Land was the basis of wealth in colonial America,” explains historian Clyde Ford, and why many landowners broke promises of freedom dues to formerly indentured servants. Photo by Humanities Washington. To understand the current climate of race relations in America is to understand a period of history between 1619, when the first Africans arrived in Virginia, and 1640. Slavery was not yet a given in the...

‘We Are Each Other’s Harvest’: African American farmers, land, and legacy Listen 57 min MORE Naima Penniman (left) and Leah Penniman work at Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous-centered community farm in upstate New York, and are looking to change the narrative about farming and agriculture. Photo by Alison Gootee. In her new book “We Are Each Other’s Harvest,” author Natalie Baszile brings together the narratives ...

Clyde W. Ford AWARD-WINNING HarperCollins author Clyde W. Ford has signed a management agreement with Four Screens, the production, development and management firm specializing in diversity representation.  Ford is well-known for his award-winning novel Think Black: A Memoir, the story of his relationship with his father, John Stanley Ford, the first Black software engineer in America. Ford’s work includes Precious Cargo, Whiskey Gulf and The Hero with An African Face, a work of nonfict...