Rep. Anthony Weiner tells reporters again his Twitter account was hacked and that he's ready to get back to work.
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner says someone hacked his Twitter account to send a lewd photo.
Shirley Sherrod talks about rejecting the job offer from the USDA and whether she still plans to sue Andrew Breitbart.
A former Department of Agriculture employee who was forced to resign last year after the posting of a misleading video has filed suit against Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted it.
A former Agriculture Department employee who was forced to resign last month, then received an apology and a job offer she turned down, said Wednesday she hopes to continue to work on the issue of race relations in America.
Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department in July, declined an offer Tuesday to serve as the agency's deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach.
Shirley Sherrod says she could do more without being a full-time USDA employee.
Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department, will meet Tuesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss a job offer, a department official confirmed Saturday.
There is very little evidence, if any, that Sarah Palin hates teachers, or that Andrew Breitbart is a racist. Yet a recent flood of viral stories propagated by internet journalists allegedly catch prominent conservatives red-handed in acts of hate.
Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
Shirley Sherrod tells a black journalists convention she plans to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
President Obama wasted no time in an interview on ABC's "The View" to pounce on the media for providing a culture that "loves conflict."
President Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit a daytime TV show, and some critics think it was a bad move.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that Shirley Sherrod "deserves better than what happens last week when a bogus controversy ... led to her forced resignation."
CNN's Ed Henry looks for the woman who called for Shirley Sherrod's ouster and allegedly blamed the White House.
A soft-spoken African-American woman with a gentle manner has become the most famous face in U.S. politics, in Kafkaesque confusion involving race, right-wing media and officials of the Obama administration.
Rep. Barbara Lee, Rev. Jesse Jackson and political duo Mary Matalin and James Carville discuss the recent race debate.
It was supposed to be a good week for the White House. President Obama would celebrate the passage of Wall Street reform, and Democrats would move toward the midterms with some wind at their backs.
Shirley Sherrod talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper about the conversation she had with President Obama.
The former Agriculture Department employee at the center of a political firestorm said Friday that President Barack Obama didn't literally say he was "sorry" when they spoke Thursday, but "by simply calling me," she believed he was apologizing.
Shirley Sherrod got her wish Thursday: a conversation with President Barack Obama about her forced resignation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If Shirley Sherrod had 30 seconds with conservative website blogger Andrew Breitbart, her response would be simple.
Shirley Sherrod has words for a blogger who posted her speech on his website that eventually led to her losing her job.
Stories about racial tensions have dominated domestic news coverage the past few weeks. Controversy surrounded claims of racism within theTea Party ranks. And this week, Shirley Sherrod -- the former USDA official who was forced to resign from her job based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech -- has dominated headlines and discussions.
What does the rhetorical feud between the Tea Party and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have to do with the case of Shirley Sherrod, a black former Agriculture Department employee who resigned this week under pressure from the Obama administration?
On AC360, CNN's Anderson Cooper talks about what he says is the "smearing of Shirley Sherrod."
Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod tells HLN's Robin Meade how the uproar over her words have affected her family.
In the midst of a prolonged recession, two wars, and an ongoing environmental catastrophe, it is unfortunate that inconsequential controversies about race are among America's most widely discussed subjects.
Shirley Sherrod responds to the controversy over her remarks and subsequent resignation from the USDA.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he apologized to Shirley Sherrod for forcing her to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave.
Fmr. USDA employee Shirley Sherrod watches as her resignation is discussed during the White House briefing.
The USDA plans to take another look at the case of former Agricultre Department official Shirley Sherrod.
White House aides said Wednesday they do not expect President Barack Obama to call Shirley Sherrod, the black former USDA employee who resigned after a video clip of her discussing a white farmer surfaced earlier this week.
There is no issue that is more volatile, passionate, confusing, perplexing and complex than the reality of race in America.
The NAACP has retracted its original statement condemning comments made by a former Agriculture Department official who resigned after a video clip surfaced of her discussing a white farmer.
The NAACP says "it was snookered" by a conservative blogger and now wants the USDA to re-hire Shirley Sherrod.
The Agriculture Secretary says the White House played no part in Shirley Sherrod's resignation from the USDA.
While officials say the White House didn't ask for Shirley Sherrod's resignation, the former black Agriculture Department employee insisted Tuesday that the push for her to step down came from the Obama administration.
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