Shirley Sherrod will soon be working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture again, but she isn’t getting her old job back.

She will run the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, which she co-founded, according to Politico. Her new role will include helping the USDA improve its dismal civil rights record by leading a field program designed to bolster relations between the USDA and minority farmers and ranchers.

Politico reports that support for the program is among several recommendations contained in a sweeping, two-year study released Wednesday that examined decades of discrimination claims by African Americans, Latinos, women and Native Americans.

Sherrod was abruptly forced out her former position with the USDA after a portion of a videotape was misleadingly used to show her making a racially insensitive remark.

Read more at Politico.com
 

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