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 ...

Gandam Venkatavva in her intercropped cotton fields in Sundaragiri Indian farmers are embracing responsible practices to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Over 50 square kilometers of cotton fields are producing a bountiful harvest season at a town in Toksun county of Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn ...

"You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation ... A spokesperson at the FBI Houston field offices said that, per policy, they “can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an ...