| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyActor and activist Danny Glover traveled recently to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country — the Bessemer fulfillment center outside Birmingham, Alabama. The warehouse’s more than 5,800 predominantly Black workers are in the middle of a historic vote on...
| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers,...
| Aug 13, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLast week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even 7,000 people. The kids were excited, but I was a nervous wreck. My kids — ages 8 and 11 — are my heart and joy. Would they have everything they need? Like every dad,...