Black Farmers

High Price of Monopoly: Why American Farmers Must Buy From Just One Seed Company

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Seeds, Iowa, Farming, Black Farmers, National Black Farmers Association, Seed Companies, Monsanto, Farmers, Monsanto Farmers, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Monopoly, Antitrust, Biotech, Monsanto Seeds, Bv-Politics, Green News
John W. Boyd Jr.

Monsanto's monopoly limits farmers' choices and threatens our livelihoods. But America's antitrust laws were enacted to protect us from this very situation. These laws are premised on the belief that competitive markets produce the best products, and they need to be enforced.

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Trymaine Lee

Obama On $1.2 Billion Black Farmers Settlment: 'Brings Us Closer To The Ideals Of Freedom and Equality'

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Pigford-Settlement, Black Farmers, Black Farmers Discrimination, Video, Obama Black Farmers, Black Farmers Settlement, Black Voices News

President Barack Obama called a judge's approval of a $1.2 billion government settlement with black farmers who for decades had been denied loans and ...

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Group Tries To Get Blacks Interested In Farming

AP | By GOSIA WOZNIACKA | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Job as a Farmer, Sustainable Agriculture, African American Farmers Group California, Black Farmers, African American Farmers, Black Farmers California, Agriculture, Food News

FRESNO, Calif. -- As the sun rises on tilled soil on the outskirts of Fresno, Calif., Mori Vance bends to pick black eyed peas, then disappears among ...

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Bachmann and the Black Farmers

Andrew Gunther | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmann 2012, Black Farmers Settlement, Farmers, Pigford-Settlement, Black Farmers Discrimination, Black Farmers, Racism, Usda, John Boyd, Politics News
Andrew Gunther

Michele Bachmann's allegations of mass fraud in the Pigford cases are nothing less than an insult to the thousands of individuals and families who were directly and indirectly affected by racial discrimination at the USDA over the years.

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The Odd Timing of Shirley Sherrod's Lawsuit Against Andrew Breitbart

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod Andrew Breitbart, Farming, David Sirota, Bob Cesca, Chez Pazienza, Shirley Sherrod Resignation, Lawsuit, Black Farmers, Shirley Sherrod Racism, Farmers, Shirley Sherrod, Cpac, Pigford, Pigford v. Glickman, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Naacp, Jane Hamsher, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

Until Mrs. Sherrod plunged herself headfirst into the Pigford story by suing my film's funder, Andrew Brietbart, I wasn't clear on how central a figure she was.

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The Media's Failure to Report on Pigford Hurts Black Farmers

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Media, Tom Vilsack, Liberal Media Bias, Agriculture, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Racism, Pigford, Black Farmers, Pigford v. Glickman, Race, Eric Holder, Media News
Lee Stranahan

The story the press wants you to hear about Pigford is an overly simple one. But it's a very complex story, and not something that can be explained easily between two commercial breaks.

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Why Anderson Cooper Botched the Billion Dollar Pigford Story

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Tom Vilsack, Black Farmers Settlement, Farmers, Black Farmers, Anderson Cooper, Steve King Barack Obama, Pigford v. Glickman, Usda, Steve King, John Boyd, Tea Party Racism, Racist, Racism, Media News
Lee Stranahan

One of the worst things about the racist charge is that too often, it's a distraction. A sideshow. In constructing their hyped up news segments, the mainstream TV shows miss the actual story.

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Now is the Time for Justice for Black Farmers

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Farmers, Justice, African-American-Farmers-Settlement, Politics News
John W. Boyd Jr.

The discussion at my Thanksgiving table was different this year, just days after the Senate took the historic step of unanimously passing the funding ...

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Black Farmers are Tight Lipped After White House Meeting

April D. Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Black Farmers, Black Farmers, Black Farmers Settlement, Politics News
April D. Ryan

John Boyd, head of the National Black Farmers Association has not emerged to talk with reporters after a 10:30 am meeting with White House staff Thurs...

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Black and Indian Farmers Deserve Funds From Settlement

David Person | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Love v. Vilsack, National Black Farmers Association, Black Farmers Settlement, Black Farmers, Usda, Farmers Settlement, Famers, Garcia v. Vilsack, Senate Farmers Payments, Politics News
David Person

With each of its nine failed attempts, the Senate has callously toyed with these farmers, shamefully delaying its opportunity to correct decades of documented discrimination by refusing to rise above its own political machinations.

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Lucia Graves

Dems Blast Republican Opposition To Settlement For Black Farmers, 'Stop Playing Games'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Tom Coburn, Tom Coburn, Michele Bachmann, Black Farmers, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Black Farmers Settlement, Bob Goodlatte, Pigford v. Glickman, Steve King, Politics News

Democratic leadership slammed Republican opposition to legislation funding the multibillion-dollar settlement of a class-action suit by black farmers ...

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Lucia Graves

House Republicans Allege Fraud In Settlement With Black Farmers, Call For Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep. Steve King, Black Farmers, Michele Bachmann, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Black Farmers Settlement, Black Farmers Discrimination, Steve King, Black Farmers Fraud, Politics News

House Republicans allege that a $1.25-billion settlement of discrimination claims with black farmers supported by the Obama administration is packed w...

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The Egg Recall Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmonella Outbreak, Farming, Egg Recall, Poultry, Factory Farms, Black Farmers, Salmonella, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, National-Black-Farmers-Association, Food News
John W. Boyd Jr.

The people who are least surprised to hear of the appalling conditions that led to the egg recall that began on August 13 were my fellow small and mid-sized farmers.

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The Bitter Ironies in USDA's Firing of Shirley Sherrod

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shirley Sherrod, Pigford, Black Farmers, Discrimination, Shirley Sherrod Resignation, Usda, Black Farmers Settlement, John Boyd, Politics News
Donald Carr

For all the the subsidy programs' generosity toward those least in need, it has been impossible to bring closure to black farmers victimized by past USDA discrimination.

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Shirley Sherrod: Beyond the Media Circus, Lessons for Economic Progress

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Shirley Sherrod Racism, Black Farmers Settlement, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Community-Land-Trusts, Black Farmers, Shirley Sherrod, Credit Crisis, Foreclosure, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Business News
David M. Abromowitz

Many will take away from the Shirley Sherrod media incident merely that fact checking is vital when information is so easy to manipulate. But there are more important lessons to be learned.

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With All Eyes on the Sherrod Story, Black Farmers Still Wait (and Wait) For Justice

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Farmers, Shirley Sherrod, Sustainable Farming, Justice, Usda, Food News
Andrew Gunther

Righting an injustice can be a thorny process, as Dr. Boyd, President of the NBFA, can attest. He has fought for years to get justice for black farmers who were victims of widespread, decades-long discrimination by the USDA.

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Immediate Action for Longstanding Injustice

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Shirley Sherrod Racism, Black Farmers Settlement, Shirley Sherrod, Black Farmers, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Usda, Green News
John W. Boyd Jr.

The White House referred to Sherrod's firing as "a teachable moment." I learned that a black woman can be fired for the accusation that she discriminated, yet instances of discrimination against minority farmers go unresolved.

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Shirley Sherrod, Black Farmers and the 2010 Racial World Cup

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles D. Ellison

Perhaps one of the more eloquent and official retrospectives resulting from the Shirley Sherrod incident was White House Press Secretary Robert Gibb's...

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Dear Mr. President: Time to Man Up

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Brietbart, Economic Justice, Andrew Breitbart, Social Justice, Poverty, Income Inequality, Tom Vilsack, Jobs, Black Farmers, Obama Administration, Race, Naacp, Barack Obama, Usda, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Martin Luther King, Poor People's Campaign, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Inequality, Politics News
Terrance Heath

You may start by reinstating Shirley Sherrod. She deserves that much. You may go further by admitting, as the NAACP has, that you were "snookered."

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Black Farmers: Still Waiting for Justice

Cynthia Gordy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Farmers, Discrimination, Usda, African Americans, President Obama, Politics News
Cynthia Gordy

On April 11, a man named John M. Bonner, of the small town Dinwiddie, Virginia, passed away. He was 87 years old. A pioneer of the Black Farmers' Move...

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Black Farmers Settlement Forgotten By Congress

NPR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Black Farmers Settlement, Farmers, Black Farmers, Black Farmers Discrimination, Obama Black Farmers, Black Farmers Congress, Green News

A month ago, the federal government promised it would pay more than $1 billion by the end of March to thousands of black farmers who complained of dis...

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Landmark Settlement With African American Farmers Is Long Overdue

Dan Glickman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, African Americans, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Farmers, Black-Farmers, Usda, Politics News
Dan Glickman

When I became Agriculture Secretary in 1995, I was scarcely aware of a long, painful chapter in the history of American civil rights. Tom Vilsack announced on Thursday that it will finally be closed.

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Justice is the Best Stimulus

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Farmers, Obama Black Farmers, National Black Farmers Association, Green News
John W. Boyd Jr.

President Obama asked Congress in May for $1.15 billion to compensate black farmers for discrimination by the Department of Agriculture. Congress has failed to act.

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