Food Ruralism Sharecropping 
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. His first book , “Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” was published in August 2023 by the University of North Carolina Press. Like what you see here?
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. Recently in July 2024, the USDA announced it had issued payments amounting to $2.2
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.
Civil Eats
JUNE 4, 2024
The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. How do you decide what is a culturally meaningful food? It’s incumbent on us to reclaim that.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. She notes that rural livelihoods, marginalization, and meager economic resources—the reality of Black roots in this country— have encouraged strong cooperative networks.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
” Bakers book is a memoir, a history, and an argument for Black Americans to return to rural life. Baker then covers the sharecropping economy and the Great Migration , spanning the mid-1800s through the early 20th century, when Black people transitioned from enslavement to a level of autonomy.
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