labor history
How to organize a union: ‘The Porter’ and Black service industry militancy
July 6, 2022A joint production of the public Canadian Broadcasting Company and BET+, 'The Porter,' about the organization of the first Black union in North America, is exactly the series we need right now.
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Tucson observes César Chávez Holiday with vigil for pandemic victims
April 4, 2022United Farm Workers founder remembered, along with those lost to COVID-19.
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Philip Foner completes his multi-volume U.S. labor history with the Great Depression
March 29, 2022Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of...
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Black workers’ struggles inform labor history
March 4, 2022Yesterday and today, uplifting Black workers ‘transforms misery and despair into hope and progress.’
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Honors for Hugh Mulzac, the captain who fought Jim Crow, Hitler, and McCarthy
September 29, 2021In 1942, Hugh Mulzac became the first African American man of Caribbean descent to captain a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the S.S. Booker T. Washington.
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