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 ...

Tobacco farming — once central to the South's economy and culture — has all but vanished from the region. The end of government support for the crop in 2005, coupled with a sharp decrease in smoking ...

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 ...

In January 2001, when Calvert County tobacco farmer Earl "Buddy" Hance was handed one of Maryland's first buyout checks in return for giving up his crop, it represented more than just money. "It was ...

HADLEY — Nick Uchneat has spent the summers farming tobacco since he was 9 years old. He initially started by tagging along with his close friend, whose father Paul Jekanowski owns Jekanowski Farm, ...

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 ...

"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 ...