Payday Report has learned that dozens of reporters employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer are going out on a “sick-out” strike tomorrow over the papers’ coverage of race.
“As journalists of color, we do more than report on the community — we are the community. We do our best to give the
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PITTSBURGH, PA. – After having the pro-fracking unions spend more than $150,000 against her, Summer Lee, who was the first African-American woman ever elected to the State House from Western PA, soundly defeated them in their first re-election bid.
However, Lee, who had been helping to lead protests in Pittsburgh,
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PITTSBURGH, PA. – Late on Saturday afternoon, outside of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hockey stadium, a crowd of left-leaning protesters brutally beat Ian Smith, a white KDKA TV cameraman, within fear of his life.
Multiple activists, both black and white, asked Smith to stop filming people of color engaging in vandalizing of
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Friday evening, bus drivers in New York City and members of TWU Local 100 refused to cooperate with police in transporting arrested Justice for George Floyd protestors.
The action comes a day after bus drivers in Minneapolis also refused to assist the police in transporting arrested protestors; shutting down the
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“We are digging in for a long fight,” says New Orleans striking sanitation worker Jonathan Edwards late on Thursday night about being fired in early May by People Ready, a contractor of New Orleans’ Metro Services.
Nearly a month ago, People Ready fired Edwards and 13 other coworkers who went
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