Shirley Sherrod Back at USDA

Ten months after being forced out of the USDA, Shirley Sherrod is back. But Sherrod, who rejected an offer to return shortly after the Andrew Breitbart brouhaha, will have a new position as a contract employee, Politico reports. She will lead one of three field programs meant to improve the USDA's abysmal civil rights record and strengthen relations between the department and minority farmers after years of discrimination claims by minorities. Sherrod had said last year that she would need to see that the USDA was serious about civil rights issues before returning. (More Shirley Sherrod stories.)