Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week

<p>DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton connects a historic slave escape attempt with today’s fight for DC statehood; AFGE’s Black Labor Week explores “Black History, Race and Racism in America,” and on <a href='https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/'>Labor History in 2</a>: The Fight for Equality in 1830. Music: Troubled Waters, written by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the <a href='https://soundcloud.com/hillipsand'>R.J. Phillips Band</a>, a group of Baltimore musicians. Produced and edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email <a href='mailto:laborhistorytoday@gmail.com'>laborhistorytoday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the <a href='https://www.laborradionetwork.org/'>Labor Radio Podcast Network</a>, 70 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod</p>