New York Times obituary for Bill Spriggs

"William E. Spriggs, Economist Who Pushed for Racial Justice, Dies at 68"

"An educator who served in the Obama administration, he championed workers, especially Black workers, and challenged his profession’s racial assumptions."
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"In addition to his role at the AFL-CIO...he was a professor at Howard University, where he mentored a generation of Black economists while pushing for change within a field dominated by white men."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/business/william-spriggs-dead.html

"The Economic Policy Institute mourns the passing of AFL-CIO chief economist and Howard University professor William Spriggs"

"Spriggs was a fierce proponent of racial and economic justice whose influence as a public intellectual and economist reached across academia, labor, think tanks, positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations, and the civil rights community."

An enormous loss.

https://www.epi.org/press/the-economic-policy-institute-mourns-the-passing-of-afl-cio-chief-economist-and-howard-university-professor-william-spriggs/

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

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