Ayisha Diaz
Recording artist Pink has teamed up with PETA to ask President Barack Obama to keep a watchful eye on what’s happening under the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus tents. In a letter to President Obama Pink petitioned Obama to “direct Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to prosecute these three cases involving Ringling’s illegal […]
VIA CNN Shirley Sherrod said Tuesday that she has enjoyed her work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and ‘would want to see that work continue.’ But she add, ‘I just don’t think at this point with all that has happened’ that it is possible to continue working at the department. ‘It doesn’t mean I’m […]
Shirley Sherrod is still steaming about what happened to her last month. Sherrod recently sat down with HuffPost and talked about everything that has happened since she was fired by the USDA and the Obama administration. Sherrod held nothing back as she railed against Fox News; ‘I’ve had many requests from Fox but I’ve refused all of […]
VIA HUFFPOST Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department employee forced to resign after an edited video clip gave the false impression that she had discriminated against a white farmer, is coming to Washington next week to meet with USDA officials to discuss the job they offered her in the wake of the scandal. Sherrod, who has […]
Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign after a blogger posted comments she made to an NAACP audience about race, is unsure about returning to a government job, she said Friday. President Barack Obama told Sherrod he regretted her forced resignation and asked her to consider coming back. He also said […]
President Obama sat down with ABC news to voice his views on the Shirley Sherrod debacle, the President expressed that his administration and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped The Gun’. The President went on to say that ‘partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog […]
The ongoing battle between the Tea Party Express & the NAACP has claimed its first victim in the firing of Shirley Sherrod. This is the first time in US History & News that I can remember the firing of any African-American man or woman dominating US News for more than 24 hours. This story has […]
I am disgusted by the treatment of an unsung American heroine, Shirley Sherrod, at the hands of Fox News and Breitbart.com, a far right web site. This woman, who has helped countless farmers keep their land, was accused by Fox News of racism based on manipulative editing of a tape of a speech she gave […]
Where was the outcry from the White House last month when 7-year-old Aiyana Jones was shot and killed in Detroit, allegedly by a group of police showing off for television cameras? President Barack Obama can speak out against the diversions of iPhones and Xbox 360s, so why not at least a vague comment on the […]
Young Jeezy & his crew USDA put together this new video for there joint ‘Bag Music’. Jeezy’s album TM 103 should be out any minute now. I do not have a release date on it but Jeezy keeps screaming it so I’m guessing it will be out soon. Unlike other crew’s Jeezy’s crew isn’t half […]
Young Jeezy & his crew USDA put together this new video for there joint ‘Bag Music’. Jeezy’s album TM 103 should be out any minute now. I do not have a release date on it but Jeezy keeps screaming it so I’m guessing it will be out soon. Unlike other crew’s Jeezy’s crew isn’t half […]
Atlanta’s own snowman, Young Jeezy links up with California’s own Keyshia Cole for a new track called ‘Never Again.’ It’s funny the two are on this song, as Young Jeezy and Keyshia Cole were said to have been involved in a relationship in the past. I wonder if these two former love birds recorded a […]