A Forest Service civil rights director’s instructions to employees to suspend racial sensitivity sessions and purge references to racism from agency websites were an overreaction to President Trump’s ...

Purdue Extension is committed to encouraging and welcoming inclusive excellence. We recognize that we all benefit when we cultivate an inclusive and welcoming community where the unique contributions, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nominee said he’ll stand by laws against discrimination at the Department of Agriculture. The Trump administration’s pick to head the Agriculture Department’s civil rights office acknowledged ...

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 ...