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The Southern Women Answering Medicare Help Calls Are Still Fighting for a Union
As the union organizing fight enters its eighth year, Flemmings called a union “the best option” for workers. Not only is it ...
'Oh, I can do that': Union Pacific's first Black woman train engineer
Edwina Justus was the first Black Female train engineer for Union Pacific. She started at Union Pacific Headquarters ... "When is the last time you had a plumber that was a woman, or electrician? Or ...
Black Enterprise28d
Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
approximately 179,000 Black men had served in the Union Army, and another 19,000 served in the Navy. While Black women were not allowed to officially enlist as soldiers or sailors, they ...
Here's why some Democrats wore pink during Trump's speech to Congress
The Democratic Women's Caucus announced dozens of its members will wear pink during President Donald Trump's Joint Address to ...
Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union Discuss Being Black and On Top: 'We Put Asses In Seats' (Exclusive)
More than 30 Black actors sat down for interviews in the upcoming two-part documentary 'Number One on the Call Sheet' ...
NOLA.com25d
Union general still vilified for insulting New Orleans women, but he also defended Black rights
Consider the curious case of Union Gen. Benjamin Butler ... After Butler and his solders arrived in early May 1862, local women started a campaign of harassment. Officers were spat upon, cursed ...
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MLB’s Derrek Lee named Roseville street after Union Pacific’s 1st Black woman train engineer
HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND TODAY WE INTRODUCE YOU TO THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC. AS QUANECIA FRASER TELLS US, SHE HOPES TO INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS ...
KETV Omaha16d
'Oh, I can do that': Union Pacific's first Black woman train engineer
A TIME TO HONOR CHANGEMAKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND THERE ARE SOME, OF COURSE, RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. EDWINA JUSTICE WAS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE TRAIN ENGINEER FOR UNION PACIFIC, AND SHE ...