Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join HIV advocates at an ...

Houston Chronicle reporter Joy Sewing reveals her family's connection to Juneteenth and sharecropping, sharing her uncle's journey from poverty to becoming a successful bank owner.

Rickey Fayne's debut novel, “The Devil Three Times,” is ambitious, rollicking, heartbreaking, multi-vocal and sometimes narratively overwhelming.

In DeKalb County, a group of historic sites wants to keep the legacy of a once-bustling Black sharecropping community alive.

Do you have a story to tell about sharecropping in Williamsburg County, the Pee Dee or Low Country regions or another part of South Carolina? Epps-McGill Farmhouse is seeking to document and ...

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, sharecropping would keep most Black Southerners impoverished and immobile for decades to come.

The landless, or those who owned little, thrived on sharecropping. Landowners, who mostly live in the Wang valley in Thimphu, are happy to take their share without having to toil in the sun and rain. ...

Her story began many decades before and thousands of miles away from that sharecropping homestead. Originally named Abake – “born to be loved by all” – the girl later renamed Matilda by ...

In Arkansas’s poor Delta region, the Williams family farm turns sweet potatoes — and the region’s troubled history of sharecropping — into award-winning Delta Dirt spirits.