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by Lynette Holloway onJuly 19, 2011
She calls last year's settlement an example of wasteful spending.
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May 16, 2011
An independent report evaluating the Agriculture Department makes recommendations for fixing longstanding racial discrimination issues. A leader for black farmers says it doesn't address the agency's biggest problems.
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by Cynthia Gordy onFebruary 17, 2011
Last year President Obama signed a bill settling a discrimination suit filed by thousands of black farmers, but conservative bloggers are calling their claims a massive fraud. The president of the National Black Farmers Association pushes back with his side of the story.
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December 10, 2010
The Root reviews the highlights, from the black farmers' settlement saga to Fortune 500 executive-suite appointments to "the Decision."
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by Cord Jefferson onDecember 9, 2010
President Obama signed into law a bias-claim settlement that should deliver payment by August 2011.
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November 30, 2010
An Obama administration official has hinted that the House will today vote on the long-running Pigford-Cobell lawsuit, thus coming one step closer to concluding a case that’s been drawn out for decades now.
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by Nsenga Burton onNovember 22, 2010
We hear directly from the farmers who would not give up.
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by Cord Jefferson onNovember 19, 2010
The Senate today approved upwards of $1.1 billion in reparations for black farmers involved in the now infamous Pigford case.
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by Frank McCoy onSeptember 16, 2010
Will blacks farmers who suffered racist discrimination ever get what is due them?
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September 10, 2010
This week on The Confab: The delay in paying black farmers, Venus Williams' sartorial choices and more. Join The Root's senior editor, Teresa Wiltz, as she talks to Frank McCoy, Cord Jefferson and Nsenga Burton.
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