Across the US, Indigenous and Black farmers face 'digital redlining,' a web of barriers to affordable broadband even as billions in federal dollars flow to internet providers. Rooted in high costs, policy failures and historic exclusion, the connectivity gap endures — but communities are fighting ba
The Trump administration is decrying diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The move is hurting communities and undermining its own goals for agriculture.
Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.
This story was originally published by Grist. It was produced by Grist and co-published with High Country News.
Jill Falcon Ramaker couldn’t believe what she was hearing on
In the rolling hills of northeast Iowa, amid fields of cattle and corn, sits a simple, cream-colored building.
The gravel road leading to the dwelling climbs an incline. A
Iowa’s Buddhist population grew in the last several decades with new places to practice -- Cedar Rapids, Clive, Decorah. Now Indianola.
The latest is in Warren County’s county seat
