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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Al Jazeera: US black farmers seek compensation



African-American farmers have staged a massive protest in Washington DC. The farmers want the US government to deliver on cash payments promised to the group years ago.

In 1999, they won a landmark case that granted them a billion-dollar compensation settlement on the grounds of racial discrimination by then US authorities.

The group says that tens of thousands of farmers have not received the funds that they were promised.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from Washington DC.

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

More than one in three Young African-American Workers unemployed

Submitted by Jesse Russell on November 26, 2009 - 2:41pm


Economists might be calling it a recession, but for the young and black in America it likely feels more like the Great Depression. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for black men between the ages of 16 and 24 in the United States hit 34.5 percent in October.

The national unemployment rate for all workers between the ages of 16 to 24 was 19.1 percent in October. The national unemployment rate for African Americans overall was 15.7 percent.

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