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AFL-CIO Report Shows Top CEOs Made 312 Times Workers’ Pay in 2025
iStockphoto / NNPA. 1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Black Women Deserve Equal Pay. Unions Help Make It Happen. Original
By Fred Redmond Everywhere you look, people are talking about the rising cost of living. Families are stretching every paycheck to cover soaring grocery bills. Housing costs remain out of reach for too many. Child care, health care, and gas bills continue to strain household budgets. People are doing everything right, yet too many are still falling behind. For Black women, this crisis is compounded by a persistent and unjust pay gap.
What we learned when Thomas M. Belton stepped into my classroom | Mark F. Thompson
Sometimes life can seem to come full circle, if you are lucky enough to recognize the moment. As I casually reviewed the obituaries in the Republican on Friday the 13th, itself an ominous day, I recognized the face of a man from my distant past. Thomas M. Belton. We only met three times, but his story lives large in my memory. Back in 1976, a year after graduating from Ludlow High School, I found myself working in the “meat room” in the Friendly Ice Cream plant in Wilbraham.
Celebrating the Power of Black Union Organizers Original
The country just celebrated Labor Day and the contributions working people and unions have made toward a more equitable and just society. Throughout our history, the labor movement has marched, fought and stood together to win every bit of progress: to end child labor and make dangerous jobs safer. For fair wages, affordable health care, time off to spend with family. For dignity and respect, no matter where you come from or the color of your skin.
Trump Orders Undercut Black Business Gains
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent Black-owned businesses have experienced historic growth in recent years, but that progress is now under threat. A sharp decline in small business optimism, coupled with sweeping anti-DEI executive orders from the Trump administration, is creating new hurdles-particularly for African American entrepreneurs who remain vastly underrepresented in the U.S. economy.
In Education, "this is our Bull Connor moment." Original
By Rev. Mark Thompson Fed Ingram, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers on Trump's dismantling of the Department of Education by disabling funding for students with disabilities, ending Pell Grants and subsidized loans and preventing access to career and technical education.
Trump Is In. What's Next For Black, Brown and Indigenous Women?
By Maria Perez, and All we have is each other. Muthoni Wambu Kraal, co-founder and Executive Director of Women's Democracy Lab Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Democracy Rising, This is not the first time large segments of the population- we the people -have faced state-sanctioned dehumanization and violence. We've seen it in the genocide of Indigenous peoples, centuries of slavery, decades of Jim Crow.
The Best Books on Saudi Arabia
Before we discuss your books on Saudi Arabia, could you tell me a bit about your background. Did you grow up in Saudi Arabia? I lived in Saudi Arabia until I was 13 or 14 years old.Then there were some political problems between my father and the government, so he left for Lebanon and I lived in Lebanon between 1975 and 1982. I went to middle school and high school in Lebanon during the civil war. My parents left Lebanon in 1980, but I stayed to finish my International Baccalaureate.
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