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Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin

March 15, 2011 By Scott Marshall

March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.

Republicans “deaf ” to Black farmers’ $1.25 billion claim

September 9, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

WASHINGTON – Willie E. Adams, a founding member of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), has been fighting U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) discrimination in denying Black farmers federal loans for as long as he has been a...

Factory farms produce more than eggs

August 24, 2010 By Phil Amadon

In the early 1970s, I took a job at a brand new "industrial" hen house in Indiana.

Cuba travel bill takes flight

July 5, 2010 By Roberta Wood

Congress could be on the verge of ending the U.S government's ban on travel by its citizens to Cuba.

Minority, women farmers’ discrimination suits near settlement

May 27, 2010 By Joe Sims

U.S. government discrimination against minority farmers and women will be a thing of the past if the Obama administration has anything to say about it.