00-00-0000 In Brief THE U DEPARTMENT OF Agriculture (USDA) has settl a discrimination lawsuit brought against the USDA on a group of African American farmers.

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In Brief

THE U DEPARTMENT OF Agriculture (USDA) has settl a discrimination
lawsuit brought against the USDA on a group of African American farmers.
U District connoisseur Paul Friedman set a fairness hearing for March,
when the agreement is awaited to be given final approval.

The $300 million payment resolves the cases of African American
farmers who su the USDA between 1981 and 1996 for discrimination
claiming that the agency denied them farm loans, craw subsidies and
other benefits. The Reagan administration disbanded the USDA's civil
rights office in 1983; the

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