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Race is Visible, Class is Not; with Steve Dubb

Nonprofit SnapCast

Show Notes

Steve Dubb is the senior editor of Economic Justice at Nonprofit Quarterly. He writes about solutions-oriented topics like the solidarity economy, cooperatives, community land trusts, and public banks. His writing has an activist focus, aiming to make economics more accessible and understandable.

The discussion covered how structural racism has been used to depress wages and weaken labor unions, especially in the American South. While progress has been made, wage gaps between Black and white workers persist.

A new Labor Institute for Advancing Black Strategists is being established at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU, with support from Jobs with Justice. The institute aims to do research, document working conditions, train organizers, and help build a peer network of Black labor leaders in the South.

The conversation emphasized that issues of race and class are deeply intertwined, and that nonprofits working on policy, workforce development, education, and other areas could benefit from partnering with labor organizing efforts.

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