They are the "white gold" heroes. Cotton workers, long-standing cogs behind a powerhouse regional industry, hold an esteemed ...

We start work in the field at 7 a.m. and work until 7 p.m. They bring us in buses. The temperature exceeds 113°F, but while ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” ...

As a girl, Mama tried to escape the terrors of poverty, the overcrowded tiny place on a former plantation, her father's alcoholism, and his mistreatment of her mother, as well as some harsh realities ...

We hope for as much rain as possible here on the High Plains, but the amount we have seen in the past week could have hurt ...

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted, and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after ...

Democrat Ty Pinkins has jogged along highways and past cotton fields to try to draw attention to his effort to unseat ...

URUMQI -- A vast cotton field in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has broken the country's large-scale ...

"Congratulations! you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation," reads one version of the messages.

The Mumbai police seized nearly three tonnes of marijuana, estimated to cost Rs 5 crore in the black market, from a cotton ...

KARACHI: Pakistan is projected to increase imports of cotton by almost four times to $1.9 billion in the current fiscal year ...