Today is Worker's Memorial Day. Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.
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Justin Jones: "They thought they would silence us, but in fact they amplified it"
Justin Pearson, was one of two Black representatives ousted from the Tennessee legislature, speaks out before Thursday’s vote: the legislature ‘does not want diversity of people nor diversity of thought, and they do not want democracy.’
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