Black Small Business Owners Struggle to Overcome Pandemic Shutdown
…I have to pack the food in individual containers. — Francina Best. Despite her passion for education, Best closed her after school program on March 14, 2020, to keep her…
…I have to pack the food in individual containers. — Francina Best. Despite her passion for education, Best closed her after school program on March 14, 2020, to keep her…
…that its gross profits on cannabis sales in the third quarter of 2020 had almost quadrupled over the previous year. (The Windy City Cannabis workers voted “overwhelmingly” for union representation…
…it moving under the Trump Administration,” said Elizabeth Yeampierre, a co-founder of the Climate Justice Alliance and the multicultural community organization UPROSE. “The lives of our people are at stake…
…in October, according to Appelbaum. “We started collecting cards to enable for us to reach an election on October 15, 2020,” said Appelbaum. “I think it is really important that…
…the Trump administration. “The Senate was a graveyard for lots of good bills, Rep. Courtney says. “This one failed [when] the Trump administration was doing nothing at the Department of…
…the contract include an 11-percent compounded wage increase over the five-year agreement as follows: Effective March 1, 2021, a 1.75% increase; Effective March 1, 2022, a 2.0% increase; Effective March…
…the city ordered restaurants to close. Mar recalls that when he went to Jing Fong in February 2020 to celebrate the Lunar New Year, instead of having to wait on…
…March 18, 2020, and did not leave for 44 days. “I got it at the station pretty bad,” says Cadet. “I was sedated, intubated, on a ventilator and I was…
…on Jan. 26. “I can’t believe I have to say this in 2021. Wage theft is theft. Theft is a crime,” said Diana Florence, former head of the Manhattan District…
…of October 8, 1961, firefighters responded to a raging fire at the infamous farm labor camp on Cox Lane in Cutchogue. For years, the camp had been used to house…