Settlement

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September 19, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - Black farmers now make up just one percent of the entire American farmer population...
August 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Haynesworth appeared Monday in D.C. Superior Court to enter the plea. Haynesworth had been scheduled to go…
August 1, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina is one of about a half dozen states to apologize for past eugenics programs,…
July 21, 2011
VIDEO - The school board in Memphis voted 8 - 1 this past Tuesday to indefinitely delay the school year…
July 20, 2011
OPINION - Michele Bachmann, like the GOP in general, has conveniently forgotten the USDA's history of racism as far as…
July 19, 2011
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, which represented black farmers in the Pigford…
June 17, 2011
Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings called Iowa Rep. Steve King's plan to strip $1.2 Billion from the black farmer's discrimination settlement…
June 6, 2011
PHILADELPHIA - Allentown agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over the death of a 4-year-old boy who…
May 31, 2011
LITHONIA, Georgia (AP) - Long did not address the allegations or the settlement from the pulpit. Details of the resolution…
May 26, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Long is a father of four who has been an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, and his…
April 26, 2011
OPINION - 'You ain't messin' with me. I shall rise again, and I ain't going through this,' Long thundered at…
April 25, 2011
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) - A judge says a lawsuit involving four young men and the Georgia megachurch pastor they accused…
January 31, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - The woman had claimed Michael Irvin assaulted her at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in…
December 8, 2010
OPINION - Thousands of farmers will reap justice after sowing decades of activist mobilization in the face of USDA discrimination...
December 7, 2010
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Wisconsin Innocence Project helped free him last year, and now the 46-year-old Milwaukee man wants to…
December 6, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said the president would sign the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 and make remarks…
November 30, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers voted 256-152 to send the measure to President Barack Obama, whose administration brokered the settlements over…
November 24, 2010
CLUTCH - The love lost between artists Christina Milian and The-Dream came with a lot of zeros...
November 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over…
November 9, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert Rosen sued in May 2009, claiming he was seriously hurt at a gym after being…