In 1979, a change was coming. A change in how the NBA was seen. How black stars were celebrated. And how America’s race problem would be televised under the bright lights of the NBA.
Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the South?
The capitalist system doesn’t just drive wealth inequality—it is designed to exploit and undermine the working class and to protect the power and economic interests of the wealthy.
Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond.
McDonald’s has long portrayed itself as a champion of black uplift through black ownership of its franchises. But McDonald’s version of black capitalism, like the idea of black capitalism as a whole, has only ever benefited the few, not the many.
Economists are grappling with how much to blame bias or a changing economy for the widening wage gap over the last 40 years.
By excluding jobs held by black and brown workers from basic worker protections, the Fair Labor Standards Act, adopted decade ago during the New Deal, injected institutional racism into a federal wage and hour law.
The South is more than its shading on an Electoral College map; the entire region is home to a rich history of resistance against the twin forces of race hierarchy and class exploitation. The Amazon workers union campaign is part of that history.
USPS is a vital source of decent jobs for Black workers. It could also narrow the racial wealth divide by expanding financial services.
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