Today, 19 June, we celebrate the emancipation of the enslaved African American populace in 1865.
The significance of the date - not a day of signing, but the day chains were broken - holds a lesson for us:
No one is free until we all are.
If one is oppressed, we are not free.
This is how jeans get distressed. You see the mask, the goggles, and yet, this worker is probably still breathing in enough of those tiny fibers to permanently damage their lungs.
If only there was a way to get holes in jeans without harming someone in the process…
Here's an etymological fun fact: the word proletariat/proletarian comes from the Latin word "Proletarius", which (roughly) means someone that serves the state by reproducing.
If that isn't telling of capitalism's nature, what is?
The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law this morning.
The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.
Now it goes to the house.
End child labour. This is cruel. Don’t let 2023 be 1923.
The discourse surrounding Angel Reese is one of the best examples of the ridiculous standards black women are held to to not be perceived as “classless”.
Trash talk is ubiquitous, but only critiqued when done by a black woman. Was Larry Bird ever criticized to this extent?