Black tobacco farmers fight to preserve a legacy despite hardship and systemic injustice. This episode explores the rich yet challenging history of Black tobacco farmers in Virginia. From the earliest ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic fading away, the World Health Organization (WHO) is returning to its core mission: making bogus, paternalistic attacks on tobacco users and producers. To promote its World ...
Africa’s top tobacco grower is poised to take its place as one of the leading tobacco-growing nations in the world. However, farmers who work on contract farming schemes dominated by Chinese companies ...
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm in Conway hosted the annual Tobacco Heritage Day on Aug. 3 with demonstrations of gathering, hand tying and hanging the tobacco in the curing barn. The farm, which is ...
ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — If there is one person who knows Robertson County history like the back of her hand, it’s Greenbrier native and County Historian Yolanda Reid. “I was surrounded by ...
MASINDI — Less than half a kilometer from Aliyo Sarile’s tobacco farm, the wild frontier of Budongo Forest rises, a wall of emerald canopy and untamed vegetation marking a boundary. Each dawn, Aliyo ...
"You still have all that to do today?" (Brush, brush, brush.) "No. . . . They's for tomorrow." Like a soft rhythmic percussion, the sound of tobacco being stripped off a stick accompanies the few ...
On 28 bucolic acres of prime country Connecticut, an estate that began life in the 18th century as a tobacco farm is hitting the market Tuesday for $9.5 million, Mansion Global has learned. Known as ...