"The world owes you nothing but an opportunity" was a favorite saying of Geneva Epps Mosley, her daughter Evelyn Plantillas said.

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera ... Jackson’s searing black-and-white photos documented not just work in the fields, but life inside Southern prisons ...

Rayner witnessed the boom of cotton farming in Arizona at an early age. It was a time when 42% of the total cropland in the state was cotton most of the year, and miles of it bloomed from Yuma to ...

Urban growth has paved over many cotton fields, pushing them out of Maricopa County to other parts of Arizona. In Arizona, cotton yields are five times higher than a century ago as farmers learn ...

As with other crops, Brazil is close to unseating the US to become the world’s biggest cotton exporter as Texas, America’s top-producing region, buckles under searing heat and drought.

Now it’s crowned by a stunning bronze sculpture, Standing in This Place, by Rachel Carter, depicting two life-size figures: a white mill worker from Nottingham’s textiles past, and an enslaved Black ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Des Moines Fire Department is investigating the cause of a massive fire in the Drake neighborhood that began late Sunday night. Captain Chris Clement said the first call came in ...

MINISTER of Education, Priya Manickchand, on Wednesday, turned the sod for the reconstruction of Cotton Field Secondary School, marking a significant step in boosting education delivery in Region Two.