Marvel Cooke, a groundbreaking Black woman journalist who reported on labor in the 1940s and organized a union with the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s, is one of countless storytellers nearly forgotten by history because they were too radical. Lewis Raven Wallace brings us this report from The View from Somewhere: A Podcast About Journalism With A Purpose, which features stories of marginalized and oppressed people who have shaped journalism in the U.S. The podcast focuses on the troubled history of “objectivity” and how it has been used to gatekeep and exclude people of color, queer and trans people, and people organizing for their labor rights and communities.
Also this week: In June of 1990, hundreds of striking janitors and supporters peacefully demonstrated in Century City, Los Angeles. Police in riot gear attacked, injuring hundreds of people. The violent encounter -- which became known as The Battle of Century City -- would mark a turning point in the janitors' fight for justice. Check out the video here.
On this week’s Labor History in 2:00: Milwaukee transit workers join the ‘34 strike wave.
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Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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“The Port of Missing Men”
A Supreme disaster for workers
Working People’s Hidden Histories
Labor history at the AFL-CIO & Labor Notes
“We Remember You”; the AFL-CIO’s tribute to Rich Trumka
Detroit Remains: Using historical archeology to connect the past to the present
The Memorial Day Massacre
Forced labour during the ”Dirty Thirties”
Blood, guts, and organizing
The Haymarket Martyrs Monument: Past, Present, Future
We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day
The death of “Big Steve” Sutton
Working on Earth Day
Big Top Labor: Life and labor in the circus world
Michael Honey on Dr. King: “All Labor Has Dignity”
Industrial murder at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
Union women heroes, past and present
The Radicalism of Irish American Women
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