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Nannie Helen Burroughs opened the National Training School for Women and Girls, offering Black women an opportunity to get education and job training in D.C. She also gave the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking opportunities and encouragement during the earliest stages of the Civil Rights Movement. (Courtesy photo)

Nannie Helen Burroughs: Champion of Education for Black Women

by Richard D. Elliott, Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. and Stacy M. Brown February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

The legacy of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, a barrier-breaking woman integral to achieving civil rights, labor rights and educational equity in the nation, continues through current work toward racial and gender equity, and overall human rights. (Courtesy photo)

Remembering Anna Arnold Hedgeman

by Lindiwe Vilakazi February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

**FILE** Elizabeth Davis, former president of Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU), is remembered as a champion for educators rights, childhood literacy, and educational equity. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Remembering Elizabeth Davis: A Champion for Educators Rights, Literacy, Educational Equity

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

Booker T. Washington was the principal of Tuskegee Institute from the late 1880s to 1915. (Courtesy photo)

Booker T. Washington Favored Black Manual Labor, Discouraged African Americans in Unions

by James Wright Jr. February 12, 2025February 13, 2025

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bill Would Make Rosa Parks Day First Federal Holiday Honoring Woman

by WI Web Staff February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

The African American Civil War Museum provides a comprehensive background on the USCT memorial. (Courtesy of African American Civil War Museum)

Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month

by WI Web Staff February 11, 2025February 12, 2025

**FILE** Union workers from Kaiser Permanente strike in October 2023. The 2025 Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” celebrating the critical contributions Black Americans have made in showcasing beauty, brilliance, boldness and ingenuity in the workforce, unionizing for fair wages, and laying the foundation for the United States’ powerful economy and global influence. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Celebrating ‘Black Jobs,’ African Americans’ Critical Contributions to U.S. Economy, Culture

by Micha Green February 5, 2025February 6, 2025

William Lucy served as the secretary-treasurer of AFSCME for decades. (Courtesy of William Lucy via X)

William Lucy: Black America’s Man in Labor

by James Wright Jr. February 5, 2025February 6, 2025

A celebrated labor leader, Dorothy Lee Bolden, pictured in this photograph by Lewis Boyd from 1971, is founder of the National Domestic Workers Union of America (NDWUA). (Courtesy of Women and the American Story, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center)

Unsung Heroines of Labor Justice: Dorothy Lee Bolden Inspires Domestic Workers Unions

by Jada Ingleton February 5, 2025February 6, 2025

Bayard Rustin (right) and Eugene Reed (Courtesy photo)

Bayard Rustin: A Legendary Organizer for Civil and Labor Rights

by Richard D. Elliott February 5, 2025February 6, 2025