In the wake of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod’s firing for a speech she gave in March, new details have emerged that call into question the punitive actions of her superiors, including the Obama ...

This firing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod has more drama than an episode of As the World Turns. Sherrod resigned after a tape surfaced that seemed to show her for making racist remarks about ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in ...

For those who have been following the Shirley Sherrod/Andrew Breitbart/NAACP/USDA story today – you might have whiplash! – here’s the full text of Sherrod’s speech before an NAACP audience in March.

Finance Reform, the extension of unemployment benefits and possible tax cuts have been overshadowed this week by a false charge of reverse racism. President Obama has telephoned former Agriculture ...

Last week, racial politics dominated the news cycle. The big story was the hasty firing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod following the release of a misleadingly edited video. She stood accused of ...

Ousted Agriculture Department employee says she may return to USDA in future. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2010— -- Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official whose ouster from her job last ...

Fired U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, whose career ended when Andrew Breitbart's conservative media consortium posted an edited video from the 1980s that appeared to show her ...

How could the White House have screwed up so badly in the case of Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia USDA official who Wednesday received an apology from the Obama administration (through Robert Gibbs and ...