
Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the South: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
Summary: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped workers in the economy—both nationwide and in the South. Across the country, tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside…
Economic Policy InstituteL’actualité récente m’a donné envie de redessiner mon « A Brief History of the USA ».
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#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack.
There's no contemporary evidence – see https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452
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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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The Original Hillbilly Horror Movie: The Night of the Hunter - expatalachians
Considered by film critics to be one of the greatest movies ever made, The Night of the Hunter (1955) is probably the best Appalachian horror movie that no one’s heard of. Based on a bestselling book by West Virginia native Davis Grubb, the film follows the murderous cat-and-mouse game between serial killer Harry Powell (Robert …
expatalachiansThe 1950s promised the perfect American family—suburbs, single income, nuclear home. But beneath the surface, cracks were already forming.
Read here: https://www.djoinerbooks.com/fabulous-fifties-american-family-changed/
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