“There’s not one farm we have with rice ... the state’s most visible Black rice farmer, each pot he fills is a quiet triumph of culture. Rice made South Carolina planters rich.

Jubilee Justice’s rice program, called the Black Farmers Cohort, currently consists of 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Collectively, they ...

Learn about the dark history of rice cultivation in South Carolina. In 1685, John Thurber, a pirate, inadvertently introduced rice to America. After a storm damaged his ship, he stopped in ...

More than 236,000 acres of rice fields spanning 160 miles once covered coastal South Carolina, according to ... Until now, the size of rice farms, and thus their impacts on the people who built ...

“There’s not one farm we have with rice ... to sow the seeds to begin growing rice. (Lynsey Weatherspoon / For The Washington Post) Rice made South Carolina planters rich.

to new growth sprouting from Carolina Gold rice stems. The farmer had harvested the field more than a month earlier, but he did not uproot the plants. So after re-flooding and fertilizing ...