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Opinions | MLK's radical vision was rooted in a long history of Black unionism


Opinions | MLK’s radical vision was rooted in a long history of Black unionism
Peter Cole
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Striking Memphis sanitation workers pass Tennessee National Guard troops during a march to city hall on March 29, 1968. (Charlie Kelly/AP)
Fifty-three years ago, a racist White man killed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. King’s presence there was no coincidence. The city’s predominantly Black sanitation workers were on strike and King had a long history of supporting unions, which he once described as “the first and greatest anti-poverty program.”
The recent effort by 6,000 predominantly Black workers to unionize an Amazon warehouse complex in Bessemer, Ala., is only the latest chapter in a long history of Black labor organizing. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Their efforts, like King’s in the 1960s, were made possible by the work of Ben Fletcher. Fletcher was a Black labor organizer ....

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10 of Benjamin Franklin's Lesser-Known Feats of Awesomeness


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Some of Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments his kite experiment, establishing the first American subscription library, and signing the Declaration of Independence are pretty iconic. Here are 10 of Franklin’s lesser-known contributions to society that are worth celebrating as well.
1. Benjamin Franklin was an excellent swimmer.
As a youngster, Franklin learned to swim in Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and became somewhat of an expert. On a Thames River boating trip with friends, a 19-year-old Franklin jumped into the river and swam from Chelsea to Blackfriars (around 3.5 miles), performing all sorts of water tricks along the way or, as he described it, “…many feats of activity, both upon and under the water, that surprised and pleased those to whom they were novelties.” Franklin’s Phelpsian feats earned him an honorary induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968. ....

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