Black farmers still waiting for settlement cash - USATODAY.com: Nearly two months since the administration announced a $1.2 billion agreement to settle decades-old racial discrimination claims against the Department of Agriculture, the nation's black farmers are still looking for the money.
And the checks are not in the mail.
A March 31 deadline in the federal court agreement passed without Congress providing the money that is to be paid to thousands of farmers. The missed deadline does not end the settlement but does allow the farmers to reopen the class action lawsuit.
'The black farmers are not willing to engage in an indefinite waiting game,' John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, said Thursday.
