Conference on the State of the Black Worker in America

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The State of the Black Worker in America, a day and a half long conference at Georgetown University this Thursday and Friday, October 10-11, will delve into the history of black workers and their organizing efforts, the current state and vision of black leadership within unions, innovative and cutting edge black led organizing going on across the country and  a gender-based analysis of black organizing. Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the Washington Post and author of "Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America," kicks off the conference Thursday night with a keynote on the "State of the Black Worker in the Age of Obama," followed by a panel discussion with William "Bill" Lucy, veteran civil rights activist and President Emeritus of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Professor Eric Arnesen of George Washington University, an expert on the history of African American workers and unions; and Nikki Lewis, Executive Director of DC Jobs with Justice. Free but click here to RSVP. Organized by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Black Labor Scholars Network.