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Shuler challenges labor movement on promoting women to leadership

February 26, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. labor movement, is challenging her colleagues to promote more women to top jobs.

Today in African American history: An important birthday

February 12, 2015 By Eric A. Gordon

What you may not realize is that the founding of the NAACP took place, significantly on Abraham Lincoln's centennial birthdate, in 1909.

Women truck drivers seek mentors for new advocacy campaign

February 11, 2015 By Special to People’s World

RWIT is seeking women who have recently worked in training carriers or who have been trainers in the past to get involved as virtual mentors.

Today in labor history: Birth and death of Betty Friedan

February 4, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Betty Friedan was born on this date in 1921, and died on the same date in 2006 at the age of 85.

Colleen McCullough, 77: obit insults author, draws outrage

February 3, 2015 By Blake Skylar

The shockingly sexist obituary drew a collective groan of disgust, and readers, fans, and activists alike took to Twitter to defend the memory of the celebrated author.