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The St. Louis American, a Black newspaper focused on telling the stories of Black people in the region, turned 95 this year. It’s known for being the single largest weekly newspaper in Missouri.

<strong>Daniel Lazare</strong> warns that, with Trump skilfully championing poor whites, with weak trade unions and a ‘left’ intent on tailing Biden, the danger of a rightwing dictatorship grows

they are expected to hold a confirmation vote for jonathan gray to be a u.s. district court judge for eastern michigan. earlier democrats met with president biden for their caucus lunches. on the confirmation of the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: is the yeas are 49. the nays are 42. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous ...

My mom worked at an electrical factory. my dad was a pullman porter. i had an opportunity to travel with him a lot, which was wonderful. my grandfather was minister, and so i grew up in church. ♪ >> you have given me something this evening that i have been

It was Suzette Mayr’s friend and former creative writing teacher, Fred Wah, who first told her about sleeping car porters.

A San Antonio family will donate a beloved family heirloom, a rare 1932 Ford Model B automobile, to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Oct.

The museum first opened in 1995 to tell the story of the thousands of African Americans who worked as porters on Pullman sleeping cars, starting shortly after the Civil War and lasting well into the 20th century.

Plans for Labor Day at the Pullman National Monument include events from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 5. It will feature site tours led by rangers, neighborhood walks guided by the Historic Pullman Foundation and an actor portraying Mother Jones to discuss women and the labor movement.

Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number. Often they were the only Black female employee within a Pullman car.

<p>Lyn Hughes was shocked that the public history of Chicago's Pullman factory and surrounding neighborhood overlooked the role of African American workers – who became a key core of civil rights activism. </p>