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*Former Georgia State Director of the USDA, Shirley Sherrod is in a different place these days, since her reputation was thrashed. During a discussion on Starting Point, she talked about her new book, “The Courage to Hope” and her feelings about the video that threw her career down the toilet. She said although she was [...]
*Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet publisher and author, has died. He was 43. In 2010, Breitbart famously posted deceptively edited tapes that led to the dismissal of Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod over racism claims. He tried to suggest that Sherrod was racist and had discriminated against a white farmer. A statement posted on [...]
*Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart has failed in his attempt to knock out a defamation lawsuit by former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, who is suing on grounds that a video of her was deceptively edited to portray her as racist. Breitbart attempted to leverage DC’s new anti-SLAPP law by claiming Sherrod’s lawsuit was [...]
*Shirley Sherrod, the U.S. Department of Agriculture employee who was forced out after a portion of a videotape was misleadingly used to show her making a racially insensitive remark, is going back to work for the USDA, according to Politico.com. However, Sherrod will not be getting her old job back. She will assist the department [...]
*Evelyn Gibson Lowery, founder and chair of SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now, Inc. announced today that former Georgia State Director of USDA Rural Development, Shirley Sherrod; actress Jasmine Guy and entertainer Fonzworth Bentley are among the honorees during the 32nd annual Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner on Monday April 4. Held in honor [...]
*(JACKSON, MS) – The Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement at Jackson State University will host a three-day conference featuring Minister Louis Farrakhan, Shirley Sherrod and Myrlie Evers-Williams on its 1400 John R. Lynch St. campus March 23-26. The sixth annual conference, themed “Too Much Reform and Not Enough Change. NEEDED: A New Grassroots [...]
*We wouldn’t want to be Andrew Breitbart right about now. That’s because Shirley Sherrod, the former Agricultural Department employee who was fired after Breitbart released a doctored video making her appear racist, is now suing him for damaging her reputation. The video set off a media frenzy in July 2010, first as Sherrod lost her [...]
*ABC News has just announced that it has decided to drop controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart from its Election Night coverage altogether. The network announced late last week that Breitbart, who famously edited footage of Shirley Sherrod that resulted in her firing, would be a guest during its coverage of the midterm election results. After howls [...]
*ABC has come under fire for its decision to include blogger Andrew Breitbart, the man who edited a speech by former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to make her appear racist, in the network’s Election Night coverage. After announcing on his own website Big Journalism that he would be “bringing analysis live from Arizona,” ABC was [...]
*Newly-released internal e-mails indicate that Agriculture Department officials did not have all the facts last summer when they demanded the resignation of Shirley Sherrod after learning of a video that painted her as a racist. Peter Nicolas and Kathleen Hennessey of the Los Angeles Times reports… The day after Sherrod’s ouster, even as USDA officials acknowledged [...]
*Well that was quick. Shortly after meeting with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this morning about a job offer in the wake of her forced removal, Shirley Sherrod has announced that she will not accept the new position. As previously reported, the two met face-to-face for the first time since a videotape edited by a conservative [...]
*Shirley Sherrod, who was forced out of her job in the Agriculture Department after a videotape was edited to make her appear racist, met face to face this morning with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss a job that was offered her in the wake of the controversy. Sherrod and Vilsack met alone for part [...]
*Shirley Sherrod has reconciled with the NAACP, the civil rights group who was quick to condemn her after a video was altered to make her appear racist. The NAACP had initially released a statement supporting her removal from the Agriculture Department within the first day or so after blogger Andrew Breitbart posted the video. But [...]
*If Ronald Reagan was the classic Teflon president, Barack Obama is made of Velcro. Through two terms, Reagan eluded much of the responsibility for recession and foreign policy scandal. In less than two years, Obama has become ensnared in blame, reports the Los Angeles Times. Hoping to better insulate Obama, White House aides have sought [...]
*Andrew Breitbart, the Hollywood Internet celebrity with a flair for controversial video, fired up about 300 tea-party devotees rallying on Independence Mall on Saturday afternoon, denouncing a “media cabal,” the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, liberals, and everyone else who has “ripped apart” America, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. But the one thing on many minds, [...]
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