Emerald Pages ◆ History / Labor Rights How Black Americans Fought Nearly a Century to Celebrate Labor Day Emerald Book ...

Omaha: Nebraska in the 1970s was a pivotal place in the national fight for and against women's rights: It was the second ...

Most of the world observes International Workers' Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United ...

Black labor has powered America for generations, helping shape the labor movement that led to Labor Day, even when excluded ...

Sixty-three years after the original March on Washington, a multigenerational coalition gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to ...

Marcia Chatelain is a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the ...

The fact that we still have to fight to maintain and renew voting rights in this country is beyond abysmal and a truly national disgrace,' Martin Luther King III said Friday.

WASHINGTON — Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, ...

This is the first year we are marching that the voting rights bill has been nullified by the Supreme Court,” Rev. Al Sharpton ...

The reboot of the 1963 March on Washington was meant to offer a jolt of optimism at a time of deep uncertainty.

On August 28, one of the most important turning points in modern civil rights history took place in Washington, D.C., in 1963 ...

The first factory strike in U.S. history began on May 26th, 1824. The New England factory system itself was still finding its footing, and its legions of poorly paid young workers were at constant ...