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Michelle Obama: School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains

By theGrio

1:56 PM on 01/25/2012

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings, including popular pizza, will come with less sodium and more whole grains...
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Shirley Sherrod's case against Brietbart to begin

By theGrio

11:30 AM on 07/19/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - A year to the day after Shirley Sherrod was ousted from the Agriculture Department, the former government employee is still seeking vindication...
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USDA discusses outreach work with Shirley Sherrod

By theGrio

3:28 PM on 05/14/2011

ATLANTA (AP) - The administration has been in talks with Shirley Sherrod, who resigned last year as Georgia's director of rural development...
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Study: USDA still plagued by civil rights problems

By theGrio

1:16 PM on 05/11/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack arranged for the $8 million review as part of an effort to address long-running problems, many involving minorities denied loans...
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'Let's Move' one year later: Charting anti-obesity fight

By theGrio

12:03 PM on 02/08/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The anti-obesity campaign Mrs. Obama calls "Let's Move!" celebrates its first anniversary Wednesday. Is it making a difference?...
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Black farmers find a way to triumph over historic obstacles

By Jeff Johnson

8:54 AM on 12/08/2010

OPINION - Thousands of farmers will reap justice after sowing decades of activist mobilization in the face of USDA discrimination...
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House OKs $4.6B American Indian, black farmer settlements

By theGrio

4:06 PM on 11/30/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers voted 256-152 to send the measure to President Barack Obama, whose administration brokered the settlements over the past year...
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E-mails: Vilsack hastily decided to oust Sherrod

By theGrio

8:08 AM on 10/08/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vilsack has repeatedly said he made the decision to ask her to leave the department alone, with no consultation from the White House...
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Shirley Sherrod rejects job offer from USDA

By theGrio

3:06 PM on 08/24/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom Vilsack said that Sherrod did agree to work with the agency in a consulting capacity in the future to help it improve its civil rights performance...
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Sherrod to meet with Vilsack on job offer

By theGrio

1:08 PM on 08/23/2010

EPES, Ala. (AP) - Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign last month after a conservative blogger posted excerpts from a March speech depicting her as racist...
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Black farmers lose faith, lives waiting for settlement money

By Jennifer H. Cunningham

9:09 AM on 08/23/2010

theGRIO REPORT - Many farmers have become frustrated and suffer from low morale after little tangible resolution more than decade after they initially filed their claims...
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Shirley Sherrod interview: Fired USDA official describes her ordeal, blames Fox News

By theGrio

4:07 PM on 08/19/2010

Despite being fired, Shirley Sherrod still believes in America and the promise of a multiracial society living in harmony, but blames Fox News for the misconstrued remarks...
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Shirley Sherrod to meet with USDA officials for job offer

By theGrio

12:23 PM on 08/18/2010

From The Huffington Post - Shirley Sherrod may be going to DC to meet with USDA officials to discuss the promotion they offered her during the scandal...
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Black farmers want Vilsack fired, settlement approved

By Trenae McDuffie

1:40 PM on 08/03/2010

VIDEO - The group wants Tom Vilsack to honor his own department's zero tolerance policy against discrimination...
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Obama: Vilsack 'jumped the gun' on Sherrod

By theGrio

9:01 PM on 07/22/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama personally apologized to Sherrod by phone today and appealed to her to return to work at the department...
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Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama

By theGrio

6:10 PM on 07/22/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sherrod said she hadn't decided whether she would accept the invitation to come back, but she did accept the apologies...
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Obama calls Shirley Sherrod to voice 'regret'

By theGrio

3:33 PM on 07/22/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The veteran government employee reiterated that she was uncertain whether she would accept Vilsack's invitation to be reinstated to his department...
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Obama should speak out about Sherrod, but probably won't

By Sophia A. Nelson

12:26 PM on 07/22/2010

OPINION - How sad is it that our president, our nation's first black president, cannot speak out to the nation in a major address and ask us to calm it down ...
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Sherrod says she'd love to talk race with Obama

By theGrio

10:38 AM on 07/22/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sherrod said of Obama: 'I'd like to help him see some of the things that he could do in the future.'...
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Vilsack offers Sherrod new job at Agriculture

By theGrio

5:01 PM on 07/21/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sherrod says she's considering the offer, which she said was for a different position than her former post as GA state director of rural development...
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