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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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