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SENATE KO'S BLACK FARMERS
July 23, 2010
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Loans Reserved For Minority Farmers
June 17, 2010
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Bias Payments Come Too Late For Some Farmers
May 26, 2010
Wrangling over the federal budget in Washington has delayed payouts from a $1.25 billion settlement that Mr. Boyd and several others ...
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Bill Contains $1.15B For Black Farmers
May 25, 2010
The tax bill includes a provision to resolve longstanding discrimination claims by black farmers as well as the federal government’s mishandling of Native Americans’ land trust accounts. The measure is estimated to cost $4.6 billion over 10 years. A House vote on the bill is expected as early as Tuesday ...
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Program Increases Access For Minority Farmers
May 21, 2010
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Multicultural Farmers Market Emphasizes Ethnic Foods, Healthier Lifestyles
May 20, 2010
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Black Farmers Still Waiting For Justice
May 19, 2010
"This is not about us complaining, this is about the government not doing what they promised they were going to do time and time again," Boyd said. The 1997 case against the U.S. Agriculture Department, Pigford v. Glickman, was settled out of court 11 years ago ...
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Black Farmers Bias Suit Entangled In Party Politics
May 10, 2010
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Senator Blocks Emergency Funding For Black Farmers Settlement
May 07, 2010
"In the past few weeks I attended the funerals of two leading voices for Black farmers. These everyday heroes hoped that they would see justice for the decades of discrimination they and tens of thousands of their colleagues faced from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The discrimination impacted their ...
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Time For Congress To Pay Black Farmers
April 26, 2010
The settlement announcement between Boyd's group, the National Black Farmers Association, and the Obama administration stipulated that the money was to be paid by March ...
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Black Farmers Push Congress To Pay Racial
Bias Settlement
April 26, 2010
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Black Farmers Call For Congress To Pay Delayed $1 Billion Settlement
April 23, 2010
African-American farmers hoping for government settlement money in a racial bias case met with lawmakers Wednesday and called on Congress to come up with a way to fund the $1 billion deal. Litigation known as the Pigford Case established a longstanding pattern of discrimination at the U.S. ...
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Settlement Talks Between USDA, Native American Farmers Appear Stalled
April 08, 2010
With a scheduled April 15 status hearing drawing near, negotiations appear to have stalled in a decade-old discrimination suit brought by Native American ...
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No Easter Eggs For Black Farmers
April 05, 2010
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MALDEF And ACLU Win Permanent Injunction Of Third Farmers Branch Anti-Immigrant Ordinance
March 30, 2010
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U.S.: Hispanic Farmers Seek Redress For Years Of Bias
February 25, 2010
When the Barack Obama administration urged Congress to settle a protracted anti-discrimination lawsuit for 1.25 billion dollars on behalf of African American farmers ...
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USDA Settles With Black Farmers
February 19, 2010
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African American Farmers In South Carolina Gather For $1.5 Billion Settlement
February 12, 2010
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Class Action Complaint By Black farmers Challenges USDA
December 28, 2009
Black farmers, mostly from the South, have long complained that they have been consistently denied loans, grants and other assistance by a "good old boy" network of local USDA field offices. Hispanic and American Indian farmers have also filed lawsuits ...
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Federal Farm Grant Helps Minority Farmers
December 11, 2009
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Hispanic Farmers Fight To Sue USDA
October 12, 2009
In Texas and across the Southwest, Hispanic farmers have been fighting the Agriculture Department for close to a decade. The farmers say the department's Farm Services Agency discriminated against them ...
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Farmers See Ray of Hope in USDA Bias Case
September 29, 2009
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Indian farmers told not to lose hope over lawsuit
September 11, 2009
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Pres. of Nat'l Black Farmers Assn. Gives Answers On Farmers Denied Loans
August 18, 2009
As the owner of a 300-acre poultry farm in Virginia, Dr. Boyd nearly lost both his home and livelihood due to discriminatory practices ...
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Egg Farmers Donate More Than 12 Million Eggs to Feeding America This Easter
April 07, 2009
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African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in Africa
March 10, 2009
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Indian farmers to outline discrimination claims
March 05, 2009
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CA Black Community Rallies For LA Sports Complex
September 07, 2011
Citing Black unemployment, minority rights groups in the Black community are calling on California Senator Alan Lowenthal and all California legislators to stand up for jobs, especially for those hit hardest by the recession. The protest is co-sponsored ...
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Judge Reviewing Black Farmer Settlement
September 02, 2011
U.S. Federal District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington is reviewing the $1.25 billion settlement in a class action stemming from allegations the government discriminated against black farmers in loan processing. Friedman met for about eight hours with the plaintiffs' team, government lawyers and farmers, some of whom traveled ...
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A New Era Of Civil Rights For The USDA
August 10, 2011
Tomorrow and Friday, the members of USDA's Minority Farmer Advisory Committee will meet for the first time to discuss efforts to increase minority participation in department programs and services. ...
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Bachmann Says Thumbs Down On Black Farmer Settlement
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is criticizing the multibillion dollar Pigford settlement paid to black farmers as "wasteful government spending." Bachmann made the comments during a news conference with Republican Steve King of Iowa after touring flooded area along the Missouri River. When asked about whether farmers affected by the flooding also should be worried by proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture cuts, the two responded by criticizing the ...
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