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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950
12 Apr 2023
Paul Robeson’s 1950 speech to the delegates of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights should remind us that there is no Black liberation struggle without the Black working masses.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: A Talk with Sylvia Woods, 1974
15 Mar 2023
An inspiring interview with Sylvia Woods highlights the role of Black women in labor organizing and demonstrates that Black women should always be at the forefront.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Saladin Muhammad Presente!
28 Sep 2022
Saladin Muhammad was the founder of Black Workers for Justice. He played a key role in developing Black revolutionary labor organizing.
Too Black
Laboring Beyond Black Representation
06 Apr 2022
The allure of Black representation in high places can be very dangerous. A Black man organizes an unprecedented union victory but gets less attention than one celebrity slapping another. Yet it is…
Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.
Eugene Puryear
The Realities of Temp Work
16 Feb 2022
Poverty, wage theft, injuries, and even death are features of the temporary employment system.
Brian Shuffler
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
28 Apr 2021
The struggle for workers’ rights in this country has been an ongoing battle for hundreds of years.
Joseph B. Atkins
Organizing in the South
15 Apr 2021
Strong condemnations from the NAACP and Black Congressional Caucus of Amazon’s treatment of its workers might have made a difference in the strike vote,
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then and Now
06 Jan 2021
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Ken Morgan
The UAW Strike, Blacks, Unions, and Capitalism
16 Oct 2019
The current strike is driven by gross inequalities in earnings among workers, as well as between labor and management.