Black women have played a crucial yet, often overlooked role in the labor union movement, fighting for both workers’ rights and racial justice. Despite facing discrimination from both employers and ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely celebrated for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, but a new exhibit in Catherwood Library seeks to shed light on his lesser-known role in the history of ...

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead.

If you’ve spent any time around the labor movement, you’ve probably heard the saying: “an injury to one is an injury to all.” This is a core principle of our movement, not just because we care for our ...

In my recently released book, “Prayer and Pen: The Prayers and Legacy of Carl Murphy, Publisher of the AFRO-American Newspapers 1922-1967,” you’ll find more than 100 prayers and commentaries on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there.

With the Wagner Act, the US finally came to see the success of black unions like the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, out of which leaders like A. Philip Randolph would rise to advance the ...

To find Ai-jen Poo more than a decade ago, people would come to the city’s Union Square Park. There, at a birthplace of labor activism, the recent Columbia University graduate would hand out fliers ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Burke High School is hosting a special event to honor African Americans and their contributions to the Labor Movement in celebration of Black History Month. School officials ...

This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable on worker power under Trump, co-published by The American Prospect. I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first ...