I am happy to have the opportunity to review Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (2019) by Professor Joe Trotter, courtesy
Category: Diversity
The People of the Sunrise Movement
A Special Underground Groundbreakers Post “What is so powerful about our movement is its ability to reveal leaders in every young person who joins. The
Robert Jackson, New York State Senator
Series: Underground Groundbreakers of Today When I arrived at the office of New York State Senator Robert Jackson in the Inwood neighborhood of Upper Manhattan,
Satya Rhodes-Conway, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
Series: Underground Groundbreakers of Today The moment when Satya Rhodes-Conway, the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, decided she could get into politics was when she was
Liv Coleman, candidate for Florida House
Series: Underground Groundbreakers of Today The 73rd House District of Florida, encompassing Manatee and Sarasota Counties in central Florida, has only had one Democratic representative
Always a Groundbreaker at Heart: Frank Robinson, 1935-2019
Lovers of baseball, particularly ones of a certain age, were saddened on Thursday to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer and manager Frank
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to Congress
Series: Groundbreakers in History “I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the
Buck O’Neil, first black coach in Major League Baseball
Series: Groundbreakers in History “People say baseball’s dead. Baseball doesn’t die. People die. Baseball lives on.” Continuing my baseball theme of this blog started with
Florence Price, first African American female composer to have a piece debuted by a major American symphony
Series: Groundbreakers in History “Unfortunately the work of a woman composer is preconceived by many to be light, froth, lacking in depth, logic and virility.
Celebrating the Women Elected to Congress in 2018
A Special Groundbreakers Post; Groundbreakers of Today If you’re in the US (and even if you’re not), you may have heard that we had midterm