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If you were to drive down Interstate 70 in St. Louis’ predominantly Black North Side today, you’d be greeted by a billboard with the phrase “Listen to your Elders.” Behind those words, a 1970s-era photo of Dail Chambers’ aunt and uncle, Mary and Dubell, illustrates one of the thorny realities of Black history and the […] The post This Black Artist Is Using Farming to Heal Herself — and the Land appeared first on Capital B News.

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Norfolk State University President Javaune Adams-Gaston frequently makes the drive from Norfolk to Richmond. Along the way, she sees cotton fields where, generations back, enslaved people worked the land. “Something physically happens to me when I pass those cotton fields,” she said during a speech at Christopher Newport University Thursday. “I feel the ancestors and the pain they had to ...

Legendary country music singer Reg Lindsay's 300-year-old fiddle and cream-colored Fender electric guitar will be displayed at the 2024 Tamworth Country Music Festival.

The wife of country music legend Reg Lindsay donates ancient fiddle and Fender electric guitar to Tamworth. Read more about this valuable memorabilia.

I have been accused many times of having my nose buried in a book. Its true. Is there anything better than diving into a new book? Its a jump into

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The complaint notes that while 26.8% of Alabama’s population identifies as Black or African American, double that percentage constitutes the Black incarcerated population. Drawing historical parallels, the group compares the alleged labor-trafficking scheme to the enslavement of individuals in Alabama’s cotton fields and subsequent sharecropping and convict leasing practices post-Civil War.

The last Burleson County survivor of Pearl Harbor, Horace Hamilton of Caldwell, died on Sunday. He was 99.

The division of Aid by Trade follows India in using satellites to monitor cotton's geography, soil and growth.