Paul Prescod

A new book features Bayard Rustin's essays and contemporary reflections on what today's Left can learn from his work.

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, Ernest Calloway embodied the potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.

75 years ago, black leaders and activists shared a consensus around the importance of the labor movement and multiracial class organizing for black liberation.