Country Music with Soul By Sarah Isak-Goode To many, country music conjures up the image of rednecks in pickup trucks, drinking whiskey and singing about heartbreak. Yet, country music actually represents a blend of folk, Western and blues music from the Southern United States. Stylistically, these forms were deeply influenced by Black spirituals and work … Read more
By Tracie McMillan, April 24, 2025 The following is excerpted from “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America”, published in paperback this week by Henry Holt & Co. If American life is a river, relief from poverty and strife sits atop one of its slippery banks, and the American Dream sits safely … Read more
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Cal State Stalls on Recognizing Resident Assistant Union at 20 Campuses Gabriel Thompson, April 1, 2025Fate of 1,400 undergraduate student workers hinges on university response. USC Follows Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX in Calling Labor Board Unconstitutional Debbie Truong, April 10, 2025To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.
The Southern Women Handling 1-800-MEDICARE Calls Still Want a Union Jesse Baum, March 5, 2025Federal call center workers continue their fight after the Biden administration dialed back support for it.
‘For Workers, There’s Nowhere to Go’ Gabriel Thompson, February 20, 2025Labor board freeze leaves thousands of workers, from Amazon to Trader Joe’s, with few options — prompting some to consider more aggressive tactics.
By Tracie McMillanRead the original article on Capital & Main’s website. As Donald Trump returns to the White House this week, the people that Capital & Main has covered for the last 18 months in its national series on worker organizing could face a difficult transition. Pro-labor observers expect that members of the federal agency overseeing unions, the National … Read more
These Nurses Got a Union — But Say They Can’t Get a Contract Without a Strike Jesse Baum, December 13, 2024Six hundred New Orleans nurses join a national surge in pre-contract strikes. Waffle House Workers Say Owners Pocket Millions Through Wage Theft Victoria Bouloubasis, December 20, 2024Servers say the chain forces them to do janitorial … Read more
Read the full article here. Here at the Cut, we’re building a community for women and femmes and the curiosities that drive us. This year, our readers were driven by a curiosity about the lives of others. You read and commented and shared as writers got personal about divorces and almost-divorces, fraught family dynamics in … Read more
Tracie McMillan, Journalist and Author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America” gives her analysis about the failures of the health care system and the challenging privilege of the suspect, Luigi Mangione. Listen on The Tavis Smiley Show website or wherever you get your podcasts. The Tavis Smiley Show.
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