(Washington Post) — Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official ousted during a racial firestorm last month, declined Tuesday to accept an offer to return full-time to the agency. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsacksaid that Sherwood did agree to work with the agency in a consulting capacity in the future to help it improve its civil rights performance. She […]
(The Grio) — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is publicly making amends with the NAACP after the group’s president condemned her for misconstrued comments she made about race. Sherrod and NAACP President Ben Jealous will appear together at a rural development conference in Alabama on Saturday, and Sherrod has written a letter to the group’s members encouraging them to fight […]
(Black America Web) — Say this for Shirley Sherrod: She’s no pushover. And she’s not going away quietly. On Thursday, while President Barack Obama was in Washington, D.C. speaking to the National Urban League and praising Sherrod as “an exemplary woman,” Sherrod was in San Diego telling hundreds of black journalists that Obama needs more black […]
(The Huffington Post) — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist. Sherrod was forced to resign as director of rural development in Georgia after Andrew Breitbart posted the edited video online. In the full video, Sherrod, […]
Black farmers continue to struggle for land, justice and rights.
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Kenyatta Sherrod, left, and Russia Sherrod, the children of Shirley Sherrod, speak to a reporter after a rally in support of their mother, Shirley Sherrod Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in Albany. Shirley Sherrod has been at the center of controversy after she was fired, then offered her job back, by the […]
(News One) — A conservative blog posts 2 minutes, 38 seconds of video clips of a black federal agriculture official saying she didn’t do everything she could to help a white farmer. The blogger labels it racism. Calls grow for the Obama administration to remove her. No one at the Agriculture Department or the White House […]