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Farmers thegrio.com
March 9, 2021
Black farmers are set to receive $5 billion from the COVID relief bill but Sen. Lindsey Graham believes it is…
Rep. Marcia Fudge thegrio.com
December 8, 2020
President-elect Biden nominated Rep. Marcia Fudge, who has served in the House for 12 years, as Secretary of Housing and…
November 12, 2020
Fudge, the Ohio congresswoman and longtime member of the House Agriculture Committee, chairs its subcommittee overseeing USDA operations.
Sonny Purdue
December 20, 2018
The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year's farm bill didn't: tighten work requirements for millions of…
March 11, 2013
ESSAY - Horse meat might soon be slaughtered in the U.S. Are Americans at risk for eating a little horse…
November 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Around half a dozen African-American farmers in Alabama are filing a class action lawsuit against the U.S.…
September 13, 2012
Shirley Sherrod, former Georgia state director for the USDA visited Starting Point Thursday morning to discuss her new book, 'The…
September 4, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - This year, students’ lunch trays have a new look. Their plates are filled with fresh fruits, colorful…
August 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - As the worst drought in decades grips 26 U.S. states, business owners in affected areas and beyond…
May 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Fast food restaurants can offer easy and welcome solutions for a single mom on a time or…
March 8, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department's decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod…
March 5, 2012
Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart may have died Wednesday but that hasn't stopped Shirley Sherrod's defamation lawsuit against him...
October 28, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has given final approval to a $1.2 billion government settlement with black farmers...
October 4, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The hot pink puppet with a purple nose and turquoise eyelids will make her debut in a…
September 7, 2011
According to new hunger data released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 25.1 percent of African-American households suffered…
July 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A year to the day after Shirley Sherrod was ousted from the Agriculture Department, the former government…
July 19, 2011
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, which represented black farmers in the Pigford…
May 14, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The administration has been in talks with Shirley Sherrod, who resigned last year as Georgia's director of…
May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack arranged for the $8 million review as part of an effort to address…
February 18, 2011
Remember the nursery rhyme "Old McDonald Had a Farm?" We'd sing how Old McDonald had a farm with pigs that…