Detroit
The guy who delivers your mail takes a labor history tour
March 18, 2010More of us, those who labor for a living, need to understand our roots. Let me grab a beer as I take you on a field trip.
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Tired of margarine, janitors demand health care as their “butter”
March 12, 2010Detroit janitors fight foraffordable health care as key contract issue. " I'm tired of Parkay, I want butter too."
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Miami lessons: civil rights, recounts and tea-bags
December 11, 2009Before the civil rights movement burst onto the national scene, Bobbi Graff and people like her were leading struggles against lynching and police brutality and for desegregation.
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Remembering Dave Moore
November 11, 2009DETROIT - Dave Moore, a veteran of the Ford Hunger March and a founder of the United Auto Workers union who helped shape the history of this city, died here Oct. 26, at the age of...
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Detroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black
October 21, 2009Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.
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