Podcast appearances and mentions of Shirley Sherrod

Out of the soil of rural Louisiana, a new model for food, farming, and restorative economics.A commentary by Laura Flanders related to the LFShow 2023 Special Report:  The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project spotlighting pioneering regenerative farming practices in the U.S. as a means to address systemic racism. Watch or listen to The Laura Flanders Show special report and, meet the Black farmers and community members at the heart of this story.Watch :: the Special Report:  The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project, Tackling Racism with RiceListen :: audio podcast edition of the Special Report:  The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project, Tackling Racism with Rice Read :: "The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice Project" by Laura Flanders, The NationThe Laura Flanders Show is made possible by our listeners and viewers. Please become a sustaining member or make a one time donation at LauraFlanders.org/donateLaura Flanders and Friends airs weekly on public TV, YouTube, community radio, and available as an audio podcast.  In addition to the episode podcast, subscribers receive uncut conversations and other bonus content.  Is your favorite community radio station airing the program?  Search our radio listings for your local station, and see what day and time the show airs  If they are not, please let them know to add the show.  More details are  at LauraFlanders.org.Additional Resources:- “Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear” by Shirley Sherrod with Catherine Whitney, * available on Bookshop.org- “Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land” by Leah Penniman, * available on Bookshop.org(*Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. The LF Show is an affiliate of bookshop.org and will receive a small commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Additional links and resources are posted and available for free on Patreon  Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, along with Sabrina Artel, Jeremiah Cothren, Veronica Delgado, Janet Hernandez, Jeannie Hopper, Sarah Miller, Nat Needham, David Neuman, and Rory O'Conner. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

Cultural Marxism and widespread agit-prop. CLIPS: — ‘They should be afraid': Baltimore leader called ‘DEI mayor' stands up to right-wing, racist attacks [0:00–2:14] [2:09–4:18 total: 2:09] — Shirley Sherrod: the

America's housing affordability crisis is a well-documented reality not just in gentrifying cities but in virtually every corner of this nation. The persistence of the problem is particularly frustrating because we have proven policy solutions in hand, largely generated by nonprofits and community leaders. What is lacking is full-on political will at the federal level to break through barriers and make housing an accessible and affordable resource. Community Land Trusts, which have deep roots across the globe, were put on the map in the United States by civil rights icons Charles and Shirley Sherrod. Their founding of New Communities in Albany, Georgia, motivated by the violent displacement of Black farmers from their land and informed by their time on kibbutzim in Israel, galvanized a modern movement for the communal stewardship of land and housing whose affordability is permanent. In this episode of Power Station, Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions Network, a powerdul cohort of CLT leaders, shares his own experience in the field and calls on philanthropy and government to make robust investments in a model, based in shared equity, that uplifts all communities. Hear him. His work and words are compelling and hopeful.

This show is made possible by you! Help us meet our year-end goal to raise $25,000, the cost of producing an episode. Please make a year-end donation => https://LauraFlanders.org/donateTake Our Survey: Vote for your favorite LF Show episodes HERE Description: A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism and make repair. This innovative project combines restorative economics, regenerative agriculture, and asset ownership as the path to address the harm done to Black farmers, and the environmentally harmful methods of rice production. In this exclusive report from The Laura Flanders Show, Laura Flanders reports on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana, where she meets Jubilee Justice Co-Founder and President Konda Mason, veteran civil rights crusader Shirley Sherrod and the Black farmers at the center of this story. Through knowledge sharing, collaboration and community support, this project endeavors to bridge the racial divide and foster a future rooted in justice and healing. Join us to discover how Jubilee Justice helps repair the damage from long-term racism and plant the seeds for a healthful and healing future. Guests:Nwamaka Agbo: CEO, Kataly Foundation & Managing Director, Restorative Economies FundDonna Isaac: Farmer, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectMyles Gaines: Head of Innovation & Experimentation, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectKonda Mason: Founder & President, Jubilee JusticeShirley Sherrod: Executive Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education; Co-Founder, New Communities, Inc.; U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Equity CommissionBernard Winn: Operations Specialist & Mill Manager, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectCaryl Levine and Ken Lee: Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Lotus Foods; Partners with Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project Full Episode Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more.Music In the Middle:  “Freedom and Progress” by Nicole Conte featuring Zara McFarlane from his full length album Umoja released on Far Out Recordings.  Additional music included- "Steppin," by Podington Bear.

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This show is made possible by you!  To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate  Thank you for your continued support!Description:  A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism and make repair. This innovative project combines restorative economics, regenerative agriculture, and asset ownership as the path to address the harm done to Black farmers, and the environmentally harmful methods of rice production. In this exclusive report from The Laura Flanders Show, Laura Flanders reports on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana, where she meets Jubilee Justice Co-Founder and President Konda Mason, veteran civil rights crusader Shirley Sherrod and the Black farmers at the center of this story. Through knowledge sharing, collaboration and community support, this project endeavors to bridge the racial divide and foster a future rooted in justice and healing. Join us to discover how Jubilee Justice helps repair the damage from long-term racism and plant the seeds for a healthful and healing future.“Restorative economics calls on us to first acknowledge the hurt and structural harm caused by economic systems of extraction and exploitation. It then requires us to engage in a conversation about repair.” - Nwamaka Agbo“My goal is to not just grow organically and to be regenerative . . . but to do it in a way that's affordable so that everybody has access. Everybody has a right to good, nutritious food.” - Donna Isaac“How can we balance all of the farming principles that we want to hold on to? How can we build soil health? How can we have a productive mill? . . . That's the mission.” - Myles Gaines“As Black farmers, we rarely own the land . . . And we are completely dependent upon a third party to say yes to my crop . . . What that mill represents is a vertical integration of their crop from growing it to milling it, to distributing it, and making their own decisions . . . We have to own the means of production.” - Konda Mason“. . . It's not just the big guys who can come in and grow rice where it's not even healthy and feed it to all of us . . . We can pick our area, we can do it right, we can show care and love for each other, and that comes out in the food we provide.” - Shirley Sherrod“We as a cohort have the deeds to this [rice mill]. It's going to be ours. If all else fails, we still have a building for people to come to, that they need . . . This building here is a stronghold for me and my heart.” - Bernard Winn“Farmers are aging and their kids don't want to take [the farmland] over. So that land's going to go somewhere. Is it going to go to developers or is it going to go to people who care passionately about changing how the food that we eat is grown, for the betterment of society?” - Ken Lee“. . . If you take care of the soil and if you farm regeneratively, you are going to not only get a better crop . . . but it's going to be more nutritious for the consumer and better for the environment. Regenerative is the future and we're totally committed to it.” - Caryl LevineGuests:Nwamaka Agbo: CEO, Kataly Foundation & Managing Director, Restorative Economies FundDonna Isaac: Farmer, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectMyles Gaines: Head of Innovation & Experimentation, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectKonda Mason: Founder & President, Jubilee JusticeShirley Sherrod: Executive Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education; Co-Founder, New Communities, Inc.; U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Equity CommissionBernard Winn: Operations Specialist & Mill Manager, Jubilee Justice Black Farmers Rice ProjectCaryl Levine and Ken Lee: Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Lotus Foods; Partners with Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project Full Episode Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more.Music In the Middle:  “Freedom and Progress” by Nicole Conte featuring Zara McFarlane from his full length album Umoja released on Far Out Recordings. FOLLOW The Laura Flanders ShowTwitter: twitter.com/thelfshow Facebook: facebook.com/theLFshow Instagram: instagram.com/thelfshow/YouTube:  youtube.com/@thelfshow ACCESSIBILITY - This episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

Shirley Sherrod has been advocating for civil rights since 1965. This week, our host Ron gets help from Michael Sligh, longtime friend and fellow farm advocate, in interviewing Shirley about discrimination in ag. The second part of this episode features Shirley at the 2017 Domestic Fair Trade Conference. She discusses 52 years of work, including black land loss, the connection between civil rights and food justice, and the importance of racial justice in creating fair and sustainable agricultural supply chains, and more. Shirley was born in Baker County, Georgia, in 1947 to Grace and Hosea (Hosie) Miller. Her father was murdered by a white farmer reportedly over a dispute about livestock. No charges were ever returned against the shooter by an all-white grand jury. The tragic murder of her father when she was 17 years old had a profound impact on her life and led to her decision to stay in the south to work for change. She attended Fort Valley State College for two years and then transferred to Albany State College. There she studied sociology while also working for civil rights with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During this time, she married Reverend Charles Sherrod, one of the founding members of SNCC and the leader of SNCC's work in southwest Georgia. During the 1960s, Shirley and her husband helped form New Communities, Inc. The organization acquired 6,000 acres of land and became the first community land trust in the U.S. The project encountered difficulties in the opposition of area white farmers who accused participants of being communists, and also from Georgia's segregationist governor, Lester Maddow, who prevented the federal government's development funds from entering the state. A drought in the 1970s, fertilizer suppliers selling inferior products to the organization, and the inability to get timely government loans led to the project's ultimate demise. Shirley went on to work for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in 1985 to help black farmers keep their land. In July 2010, she was forced to resign her position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart, posted video excerpts on his website of an address she gave at a NAACP event. According to Breitbart, her comments showed how a federally appointed executive racially discriminated against a white farmer. The video set off a storm of controversy and criticism of Shirley. Subsequent events showed that the posted video was taken out of context and part of broader comments that conveyed a completely different meaning. The NAACP apologized for critical comments and her boss at USDA also apologized while offering her another job, which she later declined. The interview was conducted on Dec. 15, 2017. Links this episode: National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive Pigford v. Glickman “Arc of Justice: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Beloved Community” film Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural Members and Allies Statements and Perspectives on the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod, July 20, 2010 Charles Sherrod Community Development Corporation -------- Liked this show? SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on Spotify, Audible, Apple, Google, and more. Catch past episodes, a transcript, and show notes at cfra.org/SustainbleAgPodcast.

In this episode of Rockford Reading Daily we finish the final pages of Melissa V. Harris Perry's “Sister Citizen”. We learn about Fannie Lou Hamer's contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and read the story of Shirley Sherrod.

Today's episode looks at changes and pressures being felt in Montana communities, and the importance of community involvement in navigating how this change can occur in a sustainable way. Changes are nothing new for Montana communities, but as you listen to residents from around the state, they know that the changes currently taking place, are a bit more ramped up than before. Trends of folks with higher, out-of-state incomes, moving into Montana have been on the rise for decades, but with the pandemic, these trends are amplified. As housing prices skyrocket, working class local residents are unable to afford to stay, making many towns, large and small, feel pressures in their own sustainability. We will hear from Pat Baltzley of Gardiner, MT, who joined other community members to be proactive with the felt pressures of rapid growth, we will speak with Hermina Harold, Executive Director of Trust Montana, about the community land trust model as a way of ensuring long-term, housing and farmland affordability, and finally we will hear from the Program Leader of MSU Extension's Community Development Program, Tara Mastel, who is working on a different type of change occurring in Montana's towns and who explains why we should rethink the narrative of “rural decline”. LINKS: Successful Gardiner: https://www.successfulgardiner.org Trust Montana: https://trustmontana.org/ MSU Extension Community Development Program: https://msuextension.org/communitydevelopment/ Reimagining Rural Series: https://msuextension.org/communitydevelopment/reimagine-rural.html Future West: https://www.future-west.org/  Shirley Sherrod & the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation: https://cltweb.org/resources/hall-of-fame/shirley-sherrod-2/ Stories for Action: Facebook & Instagram @Storiesforaction Twitter: @Stories4Action To support our upcoming short film project, "Life in the Landscapes" with a tax-deductible contribution: https://www.storiesforaction.org/general-6   #community #Montana #406 #development #rural #urban #urbangrowth #ruralgrowth #Havre #missoula #bozeman #billings #equity #landtrust #gardiner #msuextension #sustainability #change #sustainabledevelopment #environmentalimpact

Shirley Sherrod is an activist and organizer who has worked to support and empower black-owned farms for decades. As one of the founders of New Communities, Inc., based in southwestern Georgia, she has partnered with Red Tomato on a variety of projects to market the produce that comes out of these farms. Her story is one of resilience and sacrifice, and illustrates the costs of the systemic racism woven into the US food system we know today. You can learn more about New Communities at www.newcommunitiesinc.com. You can subscribe to new episodes and sign up for our newsletter at www.whatisamericanfood.com. We are so grateful to The Betsy and Jesse Fink Family Foundation for their ongoing support to make this podcast happen. Check out more of their work at www.BJFFF.org.

Shirley Sherrod, Executive Director of the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education discusses her life-long experiences as an advocate for farmers, the outcomes of the Georgia runoff elections, and the successful work completed by the Southwest Georgia Project. Sherrod is quoted in an article that appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday, January 17, regarding Tom Vilsack’s nomination as agriculture secretary by the Biden Administration. She states: “He has to create a culture of racial and social justice across the agency to even begin to undo the harm that has occurred,” (see link Below) www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/14/vilsack-usda-black-farmers/ Shirley Sherrod is a Baker County Georgia native who grew up on her family’s farm. In March 1965, her father was murdered by a white farmer who was not prosecuted. The tragic murder of her father when she was 17 years old had a profound impact on her life and led to her decision to stay in the south to work for change. Shirley helped to start the civil rights movement in Baker County and later married Charles Sherrod, one of the founding members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and leader of SNCC’s work in Southwest Georgia. With her husband and others, she helped to form New Communities, Inc., the first Community Land Trust in the United States. New Communities serves as a laboratory and model in the movement toward the development of community land trusts (CLTs) throughout the country. There are more than 200 CLTs today. Shirley has a B.A. in Sociology from Albany State University in Albany, Georgia and a M.A. in Community Development from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 2015, she was awarded a Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Sojourner-Douglas College in Baltimore, Maryland. She has received many awards for her work in civil rights, and as an advocate for farmers and rural residents. In 2009, Shirley was appointed by the Obama Administration as USDA Georgia State Director of Rural Development. She became the first person of color to hold the position. Shirley was forced to resign her position in 2010 after conservative blogger, Andrew Brietbart edited a speech she made at a NAACP banquet, to make it appear that she discriminated against a white farmer while serving in her federally appointed position. Subsequent events showed that Brietbart’s edited video was taken out of context and was part of broader comments that conveyed a completely different meaning. USDA Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack apologized and offered her another position, which she declined.

Join us for highlights of our service as we begin our Advent series, 'Hope in a Chaotic World'. This week's sermon was given by Ashleigh Colquitt, with readings from 'The Courage to Hope' by Shirley Sherrod and Mark 13: 24-37. For the duration of the church closure, services will be pre-recorded and premiered via YouTube every Sunday at 18:30 GMT. For more information, subscribe to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UC_TVGBCDMu54HkK-2rRFCIA/featured This is a podcast from Northern Lights MCC. To find out more, visit our website www.northernlightsmcc.org.uk

Beginning to explore the intersection of food and racial justice, DC discusses what he's learned about USDA discrimination and its disastrous effect on America's black farmers. Then he makes chicken a la Kris Yenbamroong's Thai-style Korean BBQ recipe and gets Andrew Rose Gregory (The Gregory Brothers) on the horn for a remote conversation about focaccia, the rare hippie honey of the Park Slope Co-Op, The Dave Matthews Band Effect, and much more. National Black Food & Justice Alliance: http://www.blackfoodjustice.org Schell, Eileen. "Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access." Poroi 11, Iss. 1 (2015): p. 1-22 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=poroi  

SNCC and farm labor excerpt from a Key Note delivered at a Food Justice Symposium, March 30, 2019, Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts. DR. FRED OPIE, ATHLETE TURNED PROFESSOR. Follow Fred, review the show, tell others about it, share a link. SNCC and Food Stories: http://www.fredopie.com/search?q=SNCC Listen to SNCC's Shirley Sherrod tell her story: Sherod:https://www.southernfoodways.org/…/fighting-for-the-promis…/ Follow Fred: Food Blog: http://www.fredopie.com/food Site: https://fredopiespeaks.com/about-us/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frederick.d.opie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Support Fred Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fredopieshow

This month Shirley Sherrod joined us on The Stories Behind Our Food to talk about the half century she's spent seeking justice for Black farmers. New Communities Inc. in Georgia was the first community land trust in the United States. Weathering discrimination, drought and outright sabotage, this organization has worked nonstop to build a better life for farmers. As the members of New Communities celebrate their 50th anniversary this year on land once owned by the largest slaveholder in the state, they're looking to the future, planting new trees and bringing younger people into agriculture.Many of the challenges discussed in this episode are specific to Black farmers due to the racism they've faced from their white neighbors and from government entities. But there is a lot they have in common with small-scale family farmers around the world. And as New Communities grows, Ms. Sherrod says, “we'll bring everyone else along with us.” We feel lucky to have had this chance to host Ms. Sherrod who, in addition to her work as an organizer and as former Director of Rural Development for the state of Georgia, is a storyteller with a powerful vision.This episode was produced by Gary Goodman with hosts Kate Chess and Danielle Robidoux. For additional information about this podcast, please visit https://blog.equalexchange.coop/category/podcast/Did you like this episode? Please help us by sharing it with one person you think would enjoy it.

We met with Shirley during the all-day workshop for the Farm Advocates in Farm Aid's amazing and inspiring Farm Advocate network.  Her intersection with Farm Aid began in 1986 when she was the Georgia state lead for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives at the inaugural United Farmer and Rancher Congress in 1986, in St. Louis, Missouri. Shirley's story, compassion and humility is moving and compelling.

Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from the USDA for perceived racist comments at a NAACP event. In South Carolina a white man killed a black man and dragged his body behind a pickup truck. A member of the New Black Panther Party makes statements of killing white babies. A white man kills a black woman and drags her body behind his truck. Is racism on the rise? Do the scriptures give guidance on racism?  Please feel free to phone into the Virtual Living room with your comments or questions.  We air programs on Blog Talk Radio at the following times: Sun 2:00pm, Mon 8:00pm, Tue 8:00pm, Wed 7:00pm, Thu 8:00pm, Fri 7:00pm & Sat 9:00am.  All times are Eastern Standard Time.

The struggle for Black economic independence: Not a lot of people, particularly people of color, have had a chance to design a new community, to be different and equal, co-owned by its residents. In 1969, Shirley Sherrod co-founded a collective farm in Lee County, Georgia. At 6,000 acres, it was the largest tract of black-owned land in the United States. What happened to the New Communities land trust they planned? Let's just say they were way, way ahead of their time but their time just might be coming back. Shirley Sherrod is a long time civil rights organizer, and trainer. You may remember the scandal when right wing propagandist Andrew Breitbart doctored a tape of her and got her fired from her appointed post as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture . Today, Sherrod sits on the executive committee of the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for Economic and Social Justice, a collective of women leaders in the South. All that and a commentary from Laura on America's scapegoating of our poorest residents.

This hour the story of thousands of African American farmers who lost millions of acres of land at the hands of institutional racism. All You Need Is A _____. by Aengus Anderson & James Ford Howell (2010 ShortDocs Challenge) Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico. Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism by Tina Antolini (Gravy, 2015) Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the course of her life. And, after that moment, her life has been one defined by the fight for black-owned farmland. It’s a fight that has included devastating racism, the biggest class action lawsuit in the history of the United States, and a high-profile firing from the USDA. Gravy is a project of the Southern Foodways Alliance See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shirley Sherrod's introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the course of her life. And, after that moment, her life has been one defined by the fight for black-owned farmland. It's a fight that has included devastating racism, the biggest class action lawsuit in the history of the United States, and a high-profile firing from the USDA.  But Shirley's story taps into a much bigger one; she and her family are just some of the tens of thousands of black farmers who have been victims of institutional racism. This is a story about how those farmers lost ownership of millions of acres of land in the U.S., in part because of USDA discrimination. It's also a story of how Shirley Sherrod and others have kept fighting back—and, in some surprising ways, winning.  

Shirley Sherrod, former U.S.D.A. Georgia State Director of Rural Development, was fired from her job in July, 2010, after a conservative blogger published clips from a speech she had made several months earlier that were misconstrued as reverse racism. In her memoir, Sherrod shares what it was like to be in the center of a very public debate and how growing up in segregated Georgia during the Civil Rights movement helped prepare her for the firestorm.Shirley Sherrod lectures nationally on issues of importance to middle class families, the poor and small communities. She promotes empowerment strategies for economically and socially disadvantaged people and runs educational projects for struggling farmers. Marc Steiner of WEAA-FM leads the conversation with Shirley Sherrod. Recorded On: Sunday, February 17, 2013

An Interview with Shirley Sherrod - UPDATED! Former USDA Official Shirley Sherrod is the keynote speaker for Old Dominion University's Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at the university tonight. Sherrod has spent her career working on racial justice issues. Last year, she worked as the Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was forced to resign amid controversial remarks. A blogger had posted remarks Sherrod had made out of context which implied she discriminated against a white farmer. Subsequent events showed that the posted video was taken out of context and, in fact, was a part of broader comments that conveyed a completely different meaning. The NAACP apologized for its critical comments, and her boss at the USDA also apologized, offering her another job, which she declined. Sherrod will speak about that issue, as well as other events in her life that have helped shape her beliefs in racial justice and equality, at ODU's MLK Day event at 7:30 p.m. at the university's Webb Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call 683-5759. Civil Rights Conversations In America Today - UPDATED! What is the current state of the Civil Rights conversation today in America? In the second-half of our program, we'll talk with Nichelle Smith, Custom Content Editor for Gannett ContentOne and the site manager for Gannett's Civil Rights in America: Connections to a Movement website. Four generations alive today have direct connections to the Civil Rights Movement and each generation has important stories to tell, to pass on, and to hear. Many stories are from icons you recognize; more are from unsung heroes. Gannett's Civil Rights in America: Connections to a Movement website helps tell the complete story, with rich context provided from Gannett newspapers and TV stations that were there at the movement's height in communities all over the South. The web portal is updated continually and features news stories, personal stories, records and more about the movement.

Episode 38 of Inciting A Riot: the Podcast finds us Inciting A Hindu Riot as we finally get around to talking about the oldest living religion on the planet. (Sorry about the delay. My pitchfork was missing, and my torch wouldn’t light.) But that’s not all! We finally announce the TWO winners of our first book giveaway! News: Isaac Bonewits update, Shirley Sherrod, the Supreme Court doesn’t mind obscenities, Prop 8 is overturned, and the Triceratops is a…myth? Word of the Day: colloquy Sociology: A man’s financial abortion Gripe Department: Keeping public conversations private Spirituality: Hinduism Music: Thank U by Alanis Morissette Book Reviews: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong & A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu Please continue to vote for the show on Podcast Alley, vote, subscribe to, and rate the show on iTunes, join the TwitterRiot by following me @IncitingARiot, enter the Swag Contest through a donation or purchase of swag through the CafePress.com swag shop, take a gander at my articles on Examiner.com, and send your questions, comments, gripes, or complaints to IncitingARiotPodcast@gmail.com Love and Lyte, Fire Lyte Home Page: http://www.IncitingARiot.com Podcast Alley: http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=86829 Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-43503-Chicago-Pagan-Activism-Examiner iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=337689333 Twitter: http://twitter.com/IncitingARiot Swag Shop: http://cafepress.com/IncitingARiot Project Pagan Enough: http://www.incitingariot.com/p/project-pagan-enough.html

  Edition ##393 Shirley you jest, Obama   Act 1: The Obama Paradox - Rachel Maddow Song 1: Who's crying now - Journey Act 2: Shep Smith rips Fox - Young Turks Song 2: True affection - The Blow Act 3: Administration congratulates itself too soon - Wait wait don't tell me Song 3: Harder, better, faster, stronger - Daft Punk Act 4: MSNBC and Fox after the correction - Jimmy Dore Show Song 4: Better be quiet - Elliott Smith Act 5: Racist Fox News and crazy NAACP voicemail - Young Turks Song 5: Call on me - Eric Prydz Act 6: Obama's atrophy - Rachel Maddow Song 6: The reflex - Duran Duran Act 7: Shirley Sherrod on interviews with Fox and Obama's comments - Countdown Song 7: Secret heart - Feist Act 8: Fox News on Sherrod and Democratic cowards - Young Turks   Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: White House Caves To Fox News, Forces Resignation - Young Turks   Produced by: Jay!   Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.  

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes you to an incredible hour of Conversations LIVE, beginning at the top of the hour with radio show host/author Freeman Michaels. Michaels will talk about his struggle with weight issues, and how he is using his God-given gifts to help others. At 30 min. past the hour, Webb will talk with Thomas Burrell, President of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, Inc. Earlier in the day Burrell held a press conference where he is calling for USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack to resign for discrimination. Webb and Burrell will discuss the Shirley Sherrod incident that led many to become more aware of the lawsuit pending between the Govenrment and the Black Farmers Assoc. What role is race playing today in how business is handled in Washington? That and more will be talked about during the 1/2 hour discussion.

Episode #34 Shirley Sherrod...Wrongfull Termination??? Maybe. Get Mike's perspective on how and why people can be terminated wrongfully and when you might want a lawyer. Also, Hank from HankBlank.com talks with Mike about networking for a job. Are you suffering survivors guilt or survivors anger???? All on this episode.

Sam and Ivan talk about: * Sam Going HD * Party Mailings * Shirley Sherrod * Injured Ivan * No Time * Vacations

  Wanna know how treaties can amend the US Bill of Rights in the US Constitution?   James Hirsen can tell you...cuz he predicted it.   Congressman Steve King reacts to the Arizona judge on immigration law,  and blows the lid off the USDA Pigford scam and the Shirley Sherrod connection.  Don Racheter documents Iowa's Privileged Class: State Government Employees.   Nathan Tucker blows the whistle on the politicization of Iowa's  judicial selection.    Vigorous stuff.

More on the taping of The View today...and the latest on the news about the goofy surfer statue on San Elijo State Beach. And what did Jon Stewart have to say about the Shirley Sherrod controversy? Later in the hour Michael Reagan joins with comments on the White House polices. Don't miss this hour!

Tonight we did a review of This Week in Post Racial America. It was a sorry week for the country in my opinion. It's not possible to do a winners and losers segment this week, as everyone involved in the Shirley Sherrod episode was a loser. It was a great pleasure to welcome Stephanie Davis back to the studio for the full hour. She provided some great insights and perspective to the conversation. What is Pundit Review Radio? On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.

Tonight we did a review of This Week in Post Racial America. It was a sorry week for the country in my opinion. It's not possible to do a winners and losers segment this week, as everyone involved in the Shirley Sherrod episode was a loser. It was a great pleasure to welcome Stephanie Davis back to the studio for the full hour. She provided some great insights and perspective to the conversation. What is Pundit Review Radio? On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-8pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.

Shirley Sherrod, formerly of the USDA, said some rather provocative things during the rambling March 2010 speech that would later prompt the Obama Administration to summarily dismiss her. Click here to download / listen to the Podcast Click here to read the entire essay

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Daniel Gross, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy and the fall election, the Shirley Sherrod debacle, and the complications of the Phoebe Prince internet bullying death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Horner author of the intriguing new book Power Grab joins Mark to explain energy concerns. Plus more on Obamas apology to Shirley Sherrod. While later in the hour James Hirsen of Hirsen on Hollywood explains the latest Hollywood happenings including the continuing Mel Gibson saga and Lindsay Lohans lock up.

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of July 21, 2010 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary. This week's show commentary focused on the utterly ridiculous mini-drama of the forced resignation of USDA worker Shirley Sherrod after false accusations of racism during an old NAACP speech via the right-wing news media (and how pitifully the Obama Administration, national NAACP and other news outlets fell for it without doing their own research), news of podcasts currently making up 1/2 of the 'net radio listening audience, not being able to trademark different names for weed/pot/marijuana in the United States and some other things here and there. Besides this week's brand new Black Agenda Report segment on the FuseBox Radio Broadcast, we also have a special 40 min. interview segment from Dr. Jared Ball & the "Jazz & Justice" Show from WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC (gained via VoxUnion.com). The interview segment features Professor Houston A. Baker (author of the book "Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era") discussing his viewpoint about the ways in which leading Black intellectuals have “abandoned the ideals of the Civil Rights era” along with Pres. Obama’s impact in the United States, viable Black political and/or intellectual leadership in the public sphere, what's missing from the perspective of political organizations and more! FuseBox Radio Playlist & Charts for Week of July 21, 2010 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Pharohe Monch feat. Mela Machinko/Shine/Duckdown Records (Played Live) 2. Zo! feat. Sy Smith/Greatest Weapon of All Time/FE Music (Played Live) 3. Rhymefest/Breakdown/dN & Be Entertainment (Played Live) 4. Bilal/Free/Plug Research (Played Live) 5. Black Milk/How Dare You/Fat Beats (Played Live) 6. Jyoti/Octotea/SomeOthaShip Connect (Played Live) 7. El Da Sensai/We Back/White Label (http://www.myspace.com/ElDaSensei) (Played Live) 8. Nikki & Rich/Next Best Thing/Reprise Records (Played Live) 9. Big Boi/Daddy Fat Stax/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 10. JUDAH feat. Chase/Sundresses and Sandals/ForTheDMVOnly.com (Top Song Requested) 11. L.I.F.E.Long feat. DJ JS-1/Veteran/Domination Recordings (Top Song Requested) 12. Homeboy Sandman/Not Pop/High Water Music (Top Song Requested) 13. Dead Prez feat. Mike Flo/G In Me/DeadPrez.com (Top Song Requested) 14. DJ Bless feat. Hue Hef & Jim Snooka/Cloud 9/Never So Deep Records (Top Song Requested) 15. Sandra St. Victor/Cosmos/Strategic Soul Ventures (Top Song Requested) 16. Dwele/Give Me A Chance/RT Music Group (Top Song Requested) 17. The Roots feat. Trunk North & Peedi Peedi/Web 2020/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 18. Spoek Mathambo/Out The Box/BBE (Top Song Requested) 19. Oceana/Cry Cry (Deichkind Remix)/Ultra Records (Top Song Requested) 20. D'Angelo/Sweet Sticky Thing/C4 (Top Song Requested) 21. Skinny Fabolous feat. Machel Montano/Duracel Plus/White Label (Top Song Requested) 22. The Co-Op/Thank You/CoopMusicOnline.com (Top Song Requested) 23. RZA feat. Kinetic 9/You Must Be Dreaming/Wu Music Group (Top Song Requested) 24. Muthawit/Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)/BossTon Communications and URB ALT Museo (Top Song Requested) 25. Everliven Sound feat. El Da Sensai/Elements/Freedom Entertainment (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Bun B/Let 'Em Know/Rap-A-Lot 2. Willie The Kid & Lee Bannon/Hickory Smoke/Embassy Ent., AMG & Clockwork Music 3. Vikter Duplaix/Electric Love (Vikter Duplaix House RMX)/Libra Sun Unlimited 4. Gotham Green & Quickie Mart feat. Freddie Gibbs & Jes Hudak/Tell Me Something/Supa Mart Produce 5. Sabatta/Supa Nasty/Sabatta.net 6. Swazy Baby/I Sang/Slip-N-Slide 7. The SekondElement/Closer Part II/The SeKondElement Management 8. All-Biz/Rising Icon/MicrophoneBully.com 9. Bibi Tanga and the Selenites/Be Africa/NatGeo 10. 2 Hungry Bros. & 8thW1/Stupid Face/Domination Recordings 11. Alison Hinds & Shaggy/Can't Let My Luv Go/White Label 12. Pablo Sanchez feat. Kissey Asplund/Sunstar/Wonderwheel Recordings 13. Angelz Inc./Equality/Angelz Inc. 14. Leroge/Cool/White Label (http://icthiphop.ning.com/profile/Leroge) 15. Cuchata/La Juventud/Eleggua Records 16. Kabanhjak/Dub To Go (Ancient Astronauts RMX)/Switchstance Recordings & ESL Music 17. K. Michelle/I Just Can't Do This/Jive DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Public Enemy/Can't Truss It (Goree Island Conga Mix)/Def Jam Eric B & Rakim/As The Rhyme Goes On/4th & B'way & Island Maxwell/Dancewitme/Columbia Ahmad Jamal/Spainish Interlude/20th Century Records The DeeJays/I've Got To Get Away/White Label Capelton/Critics (over M16 Riddim)/White Label (http://www.capletonMusic.com)

The latest on apology's and racist charges that are flying between Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, and the Obama administration. Who is right who is wrong? Plus more on unions and health care. And everyone's favorite banker Hans Ganz phones in his weekly segment from Pacific Trust Bank. Listen now!

Find out just why liberals are calling for Fox News to be taken off the air! Plus Tim Graham joins Mark to discuss the Shirley Sherrod controversy and her firing at the agricultural department. And more on the border patrol and the latest border issues. Listen now!

I talk about right wing misinformation which led to the resignation of Shirley Sherrod. I talk about the fear that exists in this country over change. I talk about the slow pace of change as it relates to race and sexual orientation. Mic: Shure SM7B; Mixer: Mackie DFX6; Recording device: Garageband. Total running time: 40 minutes 16 seconds.