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US black farmers seek compensation
Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/2010216122918747518.html
African-American farmers have staged a massive protest in Washington DC calling on the US government to deliver on cash payments promised to the group years ago. In 1999, they won a landmark case that granted them a billion-dollar compensation settlement on the grounds of racial discrimination by US authorities.
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