Shirley Sherrod
Statement From the National Association of Black Journalists on the Reaction of News Organizations Covering Shirley Sherrod
Today, the National Association of Black Journalists issued the following statement in response to the reaction of media organizations covering former U.S. Department of Agriculture staffer Shirley Sherrod: The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is dismayed by the profound failure of media organizations in their rush to report on the allegedly racist remarks of [...]
Sherrod not sure she would go back to Ag Dept
The woman at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP said Wednesday she doesn’t know if she’d return to her job at the Agriculture Department, even if asked. “I am just not sure how I would be treated there,” Shirley Sherrod said in a nationally broadcast interview. Agriculture [...]
