The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved the long-delayed nomination of veteran civil rights lawyer Margo Schlanger to lead the Agriculture Department’s civil rights office, but GOP ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials charge that a spending ceiling in the House farm bill inserted because of pay-as-you-go budgetary rules will prevent thousands of black farmers from ...

Agriculture Department employees found to have engaged in discriminatory actions would be subject to discipline ranging from a letter of reprimand to dismissal under a bill filed Thursday by Rep.

USDA’s Equity Commission unanimously approved nearly three dozen recommendations Thursday addressing a swath of issues, including the diversity of county committees, funding for minority-serving ...

I have never seen a U.S. Department of Agriculture like this one. At the very beginning of the Obama administration, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, has developed initiatives to address the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is embarking on a partnership with universities across the country in hopes of infusing its ranks with more diversity as it faces civil ...

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Before I was sworn in as Secretary of Agriculture, recent folks who had the job—both Republican and Democratic—suggested that it was important that I set a new, proactive course to move past USDA’s ...

In the late 1990s, several lawsuits were filed against the United States Department of Agriculture alleging race discrimination. Some were settled, and others resulted in administrative remedies ...

When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ...