Shirley Sherrod

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Black farmer
March 15, 2022
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and members of a 15-member equity commission tell theGrio the USDA's aim is to redress the wrongs…
September 9, 2013
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
September 13, 2012
Shirley Sherrod, former Georgia state director for the USDA visited Starting Point Thursday morning to discuss her new book, 'The…
March 26, 2012
VIDEO - On her show Saturday, Harris-Perry's comments took a turn toward the sarcastic when she debuted her 'MHP Dress…
March 8, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department's decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod…
March 5, 2012
Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart may have died Wednesday but that hasn't stopped Shirley Sherrod's defamation lawsuit against him...
March 1, 2012
SLIDESHOW - Breitbart made a career of pushing the envelope, and he had a particular focus on African-Americans,..
March 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Conservative activist and online entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, who died of natural cases Thursday at age 43, had…
March 1, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart has died at the age of 43...
July 20, 2011
OPINION - The coded racism and race-baiting by Fox News contributors and hosts means that Murdoch will find very few…
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A year to the day after Shirley Sherrod was ousted from the Agriculture Department, the former government…
June 8, 2011
OPINION - Let's be clear about one thing, Rep. Weiner's actions are in no way, shape or form excusable, but…
May 14, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The administration has been in talks with Shirley Sherrod, who resigned last year as Georgia's director of…
May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack arranged for the $8 million review as part of an effort to address…
May 11, 2011
OPINION - As one reporter said of Newt Gingrich, 'It was the racism that threw me'...
February 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Shirley Sherrod said Monday that she is "still reeling" after she was ousted in a racial firestorm…
December 28, 2010
SLIDESHOW - The work of civil rights lawyers and advocates has not slowed in the wake of the 2008 presidential…
December 8, 2010
OPINION - Thousands of farmers will reap justice after sowing decades of activist mobilization in the face of USDA discrimination...
November 2, 2010
HUFFINGTON POST - In response, Breitbart posted internal emails sent to him by ABC producers on his website...
November 1, 2010
OPINION - After this unfair and unwarranted attack on Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart should have faded into obscurity, never to be…