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11:13 pm UTC Feb. 24, 2021 Billy Gibbons intends to die on this land.   At 70, the bespectacled Black farmer may very well be the last heir to work the family plot; 80 acres of black soil in Browntown, Alabama, an unincorporated community less than 20 miles north of Prattville. Gibbons’ parents pinched and scraped to purchase the acreage for $850 in 1940. They intended to pass it down to him and his brother; but he died in 1976 after contracting meningitis while away at military training in Fort Polk, Louisiana.  “I can remember all of this was woods,” Gibbons said, waving his arm o...

Black farmers remember the agricultural accomplishments of their ancestors and last updated 2021-02-09 12:16:38-05 MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Al Hooks has been a farmer all his life. “I’m 72, will be 73 in about four months,” Al said. The business of growing crops to support the family and community has been passed down through generations. His son, Demetrius Hooks, is next in line. He's a fourth-generation farmer. “We’ve been farming about well over 100 years," Demetrius said. "My great grandfather bought the land I guess back in the late 1800s.” Demetrius says his...