Credit: Tony Murphy On April 30, WW managing editor, Monica Moorehead, interviewed 25-year-old Beto Sanchez and 22-year-old LaKota McGlawn, two of seven fired Starbucks workers based in Memphis, Tennessee. The two young workers were in New York City to speak at the May Day rally and march initiated by the . . .
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By the Underground Poet for Mumia’s 68th birthday Today we sang the National Anthem To celebrate the opening of baseball season And the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier Man, we felt so included . . . so red, white, and blue! Now comes your B-day beloved . . .
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Pauline Bray Fletcher was the first Black registered nurse from the state of Alabama. Born in 1884, she studied nursing at the Huntsville Normal School, which is now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. The school is a public, historically Black land-grant university in Normal, which the state of Alabama founded . . .
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Stanford nurses win big contract gains following week-long strike The 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Packard Children’s Hospitals have accepted the terms of their new three-year contract by a 93% majority. Following a week-long strike in Palo Alto, California, the nurses agreed to return to work. Stanford Health . . .
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