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Black Farmers Await Discrimination Settlement

The dwindling number of black farmers, some 30,000 in all, are hoping Congress will at last end decades of discrimination against them and appropriate the $1.25 billion they and their ancestors won in a settlement with the Department of Agriculture in February. A court found the farmers have been systematically denied aid solely because they were black, loans, grants and subsidies that white farmers received. Click here to read more from CBS News.
 
 



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