Monday, March 18, 2013

African American farmers yet to receive settlement

African American farmers who were denied loans by federal agriculture officials are still waiting for money from a class-action discrimination settlement signed into law in 2010.

More than two years after President Obama signed a law compensating African American farmers for decades of discrimination by federal agriculture officials, the farmers are still waiting for their money.

"It should not have taken this long,'' said Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and

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