Shirley Sherrod Makes Amends With NAACP
(The Grio) — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is publicly making amends with the NAACP after the group’s president condemned her for misconstrued comments she made about race. Sherrod and NAACP President Ben Jealous will appear together at a rural development conference in Alabama on Saturday, and Sherrod has written a letter to the group’s members encouraging them to fight racism like she has.
