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… During Black History Month, we will be profiling past and present leaders in the intersecting movements to protect and expand the rights of African Americans and working families. We'll highlight both important leaders of the … 6, 1917, in rural Montgomery County, Miss. She was the 20th child of Jim and Lou Ella Townsend. The family later moved to Sunflower County where, as sharecroppers they worked on a cotton plantation and Hamer began working in the cotton fields … off the plantation where she had lived and worked for 18 years. Her husband lost his job, too. Hamer immediately went to work as a field organizer for SNCC. Returning home from a training workshop in June 1963, Hamer's bus was intercepted by …

… words. And for those of you that know me, words are usually my thing. There is so much that I am grateful for and want to share. It was an incredible night and to me, it was more than 100 years in the making. … Last week, the Passaic County … more than 20,000 silk mill workers who were on strike for some of the basic working rights we have today⁠—the eight-hour work day, child labor laws and workers' rights. Labor union organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World held rallies … made sure we understood that the roots of our family coming to America, that all we had, could have possibly started right here in the crowd. There were things I knew about my dad when he passed away. Creating union opportunities within our …