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Monday Open Thread: Happy Labor Day!
Good Morning POU! On this Labor Day weekend, President Obama penned a letter to America's hardworking men and women on how raising your voice can help ensure that middle-class Americans are sharing in the benefits of the broad-based economic growth that they are helping to create. History has shown that working families can get a fair shot in this country – but only if … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Happy Labor Day!
Monday Open Thread: Happy Labor Day!
The four young women marching on Christian Street in this image from the 1941 Labor Day parade were part of the celebratory color guard for the Quaker City Drum and Bugle Corps, a subgroup of Philadelphia's Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW). The IBPOEW began in 1897 as an African American alternative to the racially restrictive Order of … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Happy Labor Day!
Monday Afternoon Thread: Labor Day And This Is Who Actually Built That!
Dear Teathuglikkklan jackasses: From 2005: Capitol Slave Labor Studied The U.S. Capitol was built with the labor of slaves who cut the logs, laid the stones and baked the bricks. Two centuries later, Congress has decided the world should know about this. Congressional leaders yesterday announced the creation of a task force to study the history of slave labor in the … [Read more...] about Monday Afternoon Thread: Labor Day And This Is Who Actually Built That!