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*Monifa Bandele, campaign director for MomsRising.org, a multicultural civil rights organization, wants everyone to know that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is poised to soon make some of the most major changes to public school lunch room food choices in more than three decades. In 2010 Congress passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. [...]
*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 [...]
*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 [...]
*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 [...]
*Michelle Obama will promote her Let’s Move initiative during a taped appearance at Cartoon Network’s Hall of Game Awards – the network’s first ever sports awards show. The first lady will speak about the USDA’s U.S. Healthier Schools Challenge Award, developed as a voluntary national certification program crafted to bring schools closer to compliance with [...]
*Headlines are saying that “Black Farmers Are Getting Paid” because President Barack Obama has signed the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 that authorizes $1.15 billion to settle claims Black farmers won initially from the US Department of Agriculture over a decade ago. Before we all trumpet “success and justice” in this matter, take a [...]
*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 [...]
*A press release was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on August 28, 2010, stating that there is “42-pound cases of “GROUND BEEF FINE 90/10,” containing three (3) – approximately 14 pound chubs each. These products have a “use/freeze by” date of “07/01/10,” and an identifying product code of “W69032.” The recall [...]
*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 [...]
*CNN is reporting that President Obama spoke to Shirley Sherrod on the phone moments ago. The network says its news crew was with the ousted Agriculture Department official when the call came shortly after 12:30 p.m. EST, but Sherrod asked that cameras not film the conversation, according to anchor Ali Velshi. Obama’s personal outreach comes [...]
Below is the full video of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s press conference today regarding the firing of Shirley Sherrod over remarks she made about race that were taken out of context. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
*Media Matters is reporting that former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod said she has been receiving threatening calls and e-mail since a misleading video clip of her posted by Andrew Breitbart went viral. “I am getting hate calls and e-mails at this point,” Sherrod said in an interview today with the liberal blog. “I [...]
*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack held a press conference this afternoon to extend a personal apology to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod, and to reveal he has offered her another job working on civil rights at the agency. Vilsack told reporters that Sherrod accepted his apology. He said, “She was extraordinarily gracious.” The offer comes after an [...]
*White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just wrapped his daily press briefing and extended an official apology to fired USDA official Shirley Sherrod on behalf of the Obama administration, then, said an investigation would be launched to find out what went wrong. [Watch press briefing below, along with Sherrod's reaction.] Here’s what Gibbs said, referring [...]
*(Baltimore) NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous issued the following statement today after a careful investigation into the presentation of former USDA Official, Shirley Sherrod. The NAACP has a zero tolerance policy against racial discrimination, whether practiced by blacks, whites, or any other group. The NAACP also has long championed and embraced transformation by [...]
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