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Shirley Sherrod

Shirley Sherrod

Shirley Sherrod

Shirley Sherrod lectures nationally on issues of importance to middle class families, the poor and small communities. She promotes empowerment strategies for economically and socially disadvantaged people, and runs educational projects for struggling farmers. She lives in Georgia with her husband Charles Sherrod.

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Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2012
...plenty of these debates in recent years, invariably prompted by some tragedy or controversy. Think Troy Davis. Or Shirley Sherrod. Or Jeremiah Wright. Or Henry Louis Gates Jr. Or even Rodney King. We have big debates over racial prejudice and disparities...
Salon, March 29, 2012
...don?t find them, they try to invent them: attempting to make lawless radical demons out of ACORN and Shirley Sherrod; Sen. Mary Landrieu and the participants in the Journolist. Sometimes they have an impact: Breitbart wielded Rep. Anthony Weiner?s dick...
CNN, March 22, 2012
...who died earlier this month, posted an edited and incomplete video of a speech by Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod. After several mainstream news outlets picked up the video, the ensuing controversy cost Sherrod her job, even after it was...
CNN, March 21, 2012
...who died earlier this month, posted an edited and incomplete video of a speech by Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod. After several mainstream news outlets picked up the video, the ensuing controversy cost Sherrod her job, even after it was...
Wall Street Journal Online, March 2, 2012
Wall Street Journal Online, March 2, 2012
Manchester Wired, March 2, 2012
...In 2010, Breitbart was fiercely criticised after he published an edited video of a US agriculture department official, Shirley Sherrod, telling a black advocacy group, NAACP, how she had once been reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm. It soon...
Philly.com, March 3, 2012
...to resign in a sexting scandal, and an edited video that led former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod to resign over since-reversed perceptions she was a racist. In a new media age, Mr. Breitbart argued that anyone with a laptop could...
Zimbio, March 3, 2012
...on the Drudge Report and it got more than a million hits in a day. When Agriculture office Shirley Sherrod gave an incendiary speech before the NAACP, BigGovernment posted video which showed Sherrod given what was tantamount to racial discrimination to a...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 3, 2012
...the facts. In an infamous case in 2010, he helped instigate the firing of an Agriculture Department official, Shirley Sherrod, by publishing a heavily edited video clip of her speaking at an N.A.A.C.P. event. Her comments, as edited, suggested that she...
Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2012
...art form Andrew Breitbart: Official cause of death not expected for weeks Andrew Breitbart: The man behind the Shirley Sherrod affair -- Steven Zeitchik twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT Photo: Andrew Breitbart. Andrew Burton / Getty Images...
Town Hall, March 3, 2012
...the New York congressman eventually to resign, but an edited video caused former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod to resign over since-reversed perceptions she was a racist. Breitbart was known for his showman instincts and waging war...
Wall Street Journal Online, March 2, 2012