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Published: 08/2/10

Long Wait Could End Soon for Black Farmers in Discrimination Case

By  Alissa Irei - Politics Daily
Long Wait Could End Soon for Black Farmers in Discrimination Case

Willie Adams has been waiting for more than 10 years. But his wait could be almost over. Adams is one of more than 70,000 black farmers who still haven't received their share of money from the 1999 United States Department of Agriculture discrimination-lawsuit settlement, in which a federal judge ruled that the USDA was guilty of decades of loan and subsidy practices that favored white farmers over blacks. The $1.15 billion in funding – the second part of what's known as the Pigford settlement – was approved by the House this year, but has been repeatedly stripped from larger ...

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