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Published on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Al-Jazeera-English
US Black Farmers Seek Compensation
African-American farmers have staged a massive protest in Washington DC calling on the US government to deliver on cash payments promised to the group years ago.
In 1999, black farmers won a landmark case that granted them a billion-dollar compensation settlement on the grounds of racial discrimination by then US authorities.
But now the group says that tens of thousands of African-American farmers have not received the funds that they were promised.
Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from Washington DC:
© 2010 Al-Jazeera-English
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Show AllMassive protest, not mentioned on NPR.
Is this settlement related to 50%-70% of Black Southern Farmers losing their farms do to freely offered federal loans suddenly being called due?
40 Acres and a f@%#ing mule all over again?
peace
ok, last time i checked all farmers regardless of color werent doing so well. why just black farmers?
this is akin to those t shirts that say stop black on black crime as opposed to just stop crime. as if other races were somehow unimportant.
Racists wear the skeleton where the skin membrane organ should be.