They worked 400 hours a MONTH, were all called "George" regardless of their names and their union became the first Black labor organization in America to bring a major corporation to the table and WIN.
The Pullman porters.
Sleeping-car service was prestige work and disguised servitude at once: brutal hours, wages built on tips, company spies, instant firings — and the erasure of even your NAME, every porter addressed as "George" after the company's founder, like property tagged with the owner's brand.
In 1925, A. Philip Randolph and the porters founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Pullman answered with twelve years of espionage, firings, and stonewalling.
In 1937, Pullman signed. Millions in raises. Hours capped. Names restored to men.
Relax and take a shower. That is a fantasy painted by a European man. Now, this is a painting made by a woman who had actually been to the Imperial harem (the French painter Henriette Browne):
sliman mansour was a palestinian christian from the west bank, this is something that deeply influenced his art. he used biblical themes to depict life under occupation. may he rest in peace.
Today is also the six month anniversary of my father’s death.
I was fighting the Washington Post while grieving.
I can’t call him to tell him the news that I got my job back.
But Daddy, wherever you are, I did it. I stood up for myself like you told me to do. 😭
Uma das minhas contribuiçoes pr sociedade é espalhar q o album The Miseducation da Lauryn Hill foi inspirado no livro “A deseducação do Negro” de Carter G Woodson que eu li com 16 anos em um club do livro online e fala sobre o sistema q educa pessoas negras pr afastarem de si msm
Like idk how the government thinks this will work out in a few years. Older gen dying and getting too old to work, while you have an entire generation of people that can’t get into any major industry because they not only lack the experience but the consequences of no one—
There's a safety alert in Jeju Island, South Korea.
15 people are confirmed missing with 4 bodies found so far, the South Korean police is receiving a lot of backlash for their mishandling of the latest case.
Theories are pointing to a possible Serial Killer in the area.
Someone mapped out cases of missing persons on the island.
a Local claims that they're receiving a missing person alert every week.