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Ag department creates civil rights action team
Washington AP report states Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced the department will form a civil rights action team to review treatment of black female and minority farmers and employees. Final recommendations are due by mid February amid renewed civil rights scrutiny and a pending discrimination lawsuit. About 40 demonstrators gathered near the White House as roughly 18,000 black farmers exist nationwide.
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