Senior Fellow Dan Glickman wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on the government’s landmark settlement with African-American farmers regarding discriminatory practices by some USDA employees. He wrote: “Even after serving 18 years on the House Agriculture Committee, when I became Agriculture Secretary in 1995, I was scarcely aware of this chapter in the history of USDA. As I faced my confirmation and entered office, I was prepared for the challenges of writing farm policy, the complexity of food assistance programs, and the unnerving difficulties of the historic changes in US forestry policy then unfolding. I never imagined that I would enter the vortex of this monumental civil rights challenge. I never imagined seeing black farmers circling the Department in protest, or employees angry over unresolved discrimination complaints.”