The network says its news crew was with the ousted Agriculture Department official when the call came shortly after 12:30 p.m. EST, but Sherrod asked that cameras not film the conversation, according to anchor Ali Velshi.

Obama's personal outreach comes several hours after Sherrod appeared on all three network morning news shows, as well as CNN and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," to discuss the fallout from an edited videotape that led to her forced resignation - and then to two public apologies Wednesday from the Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the White House, via Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

When asked this morning if she feels the president should also apologize, Sherrod said she would rather have a conversation with Obama about race, and about the needs of rural America.

"I'd like to talk to him a little bit about the experience of people like me, people at the grass roots level, people who live out there in rural America, people who live in the south," she told "Today's" Meredith Vieira. "I know he does not have that kind of experience. Let me help him a little bit with how we think, how we live, and the things that are happening."

In the meantime, the office released a statement saying the president reached Sherrod by phone at 12:35 p.m. During the seven minute conversation, Obama apologized for the events of the last several days, and emphasized that Vilsack was sincere in his apology and his efforts to rid the USDA of discrimination.

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Foxy Brown headed back to jail.

*Rapper Foxy Brown was arrested in Brooklyn Wednesday after violating a protective order to stay away from the neighbor she was accused of assaulting three years ago...and then mooning her.

According to the New York Daily News, Brown was rehearsing in her Prospect Heights home before she got into another spat outside with Arlene Raymond, whom the rapper was accused of giving a BlackBerry beatdown in 2007.

According to reports, Raymond looked at Brown - and Foxy flipped out, yelling, "B****, what are you looking at? What the f*** are you looking at?"

The complaint claims Foxy then, "bent over and thrust [her] buttocks at the [neighbor] while shouting ... 'kiss my ass.'"

Raymond, who had taken out a restraining order against Brown following the BlackBerry beatdown, called police.

Brown is now facing six criminal charges over the alleged incident, including public lewdness, menacing, harassment and one count of criminal contempt - a class E felony - for violating Raymond's order of protection. The rap star, born Inga Marchand, was immediately released on bail.

Foxy's manager claims her client was just walking to her car when the neighbor started yelling.

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