By Alexa Spencer, Word in Black Every day is a good day to honor Black women. They birth the Black community (even in the most difficult conditions), raise up world leaders and change-makers, and devote their lives to creating and advocating solutions. While Black mamas are known for protecting everyone, folks are now gathering to […]
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#WordinBlack: The Hornet’s Nest: Washington, D.C.’s First African American Fire Station
This post was originally published on The Washington Informer By Roland Hesmondhalgh Engine Company 4 is a woefully unknown player in the history of both the Washington, D.C., fire department and racial equality in America. Created in 1919 at the request of every African American fireman in Washington, D.C. — all three of them — the company has […]
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Why Health Concerns Are at the Heart of the New Amazon and Starbucks Unions
By Alexa Spence for Word in Black When news broke on April 1, that Amazon workers in Staten Island, N.Y. had managed to organize the first union in the notoriously anti-union company’s 27-year history, a common refrain across social media went something like this: This is not an April Fool’s Day joke. The news was […]
