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AFSCME’s Saunders At NAACP Labor Luncheon: We Must Vote For Candidates Who Believe, As Dr. King Said, That ‘All Labor Has Dignity’

July 25, 2024 Carma Henry 0

“We must vote for candidates up and down the ballot who believe, as Dr. King said, that ‘all labor has dignity’; candidates willing to walk the picket line, not those who have spent decades busting unions and stiffing working people; candidates who believe diversity is our strength, who seek to unite us around common values — not those who thrive on divisiveness and resentment. That’s what Rev. Lawson would ask us to do at this pivotal moment for the nation. And if Bill Lucy were able to be at this convention, he’d be urging us to do the same.” […]

This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Black Wall Street

August 18, 2021 Carma Henry 0

In 2020 alone, we lost 41% of Black businesses between the months of February-April. Many of our brick-and-mortar mainstays didn’t survive the economic shutdown, particularly those who weren’t sufficiently tech-enabled. Many of those mom-and-pop shops or small-to-medium size enterprises (SME) have been subsumed under the new everyday economy. The everyday economy is now almost entirely online, and the central reason we have to tech-enable every Black business at little to no cost. […]