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Letter to the editor

(02/06/17 4:38pm)

Black History Month is an opportune moment to reflect on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) ruling recognizing teaching and research assistants at private colleges and universities as employees with the right to protection under the National Labor Relations Act and to consider the ongoing organizing campaign at Duke. Duke University's first labor union was formed in the crucible of labor, civil rights and student organizing in the late 1960s, and it was the demands of Duke’s low-wage African American workforce that galvanized that campaign. AFSCME Local 77 still represents some campus workers.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/02/letter-to-the-editor-d406

Duke and the issue of race

(11/16/15 6:42am)

Although the American Constitution begins with the words “We the People,” and the Declaration of Independence declares that “all men are created equal,” our history has largely contradicted those ideals. Indeed, today’s level of economic inequality is greater than it has ever been since the Great Depression, according to Pew Research Center. Although significant progress has occurred over the last century, recent developments highlight the degree to which we are moving backward as much as we are moving forward.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/11/duke-and-the-issue-of-race-960f