Return To Sender: Saving the USPS is a Racial Justice Issue

News Beat

English - August 21, 2020 17:37 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
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Black Americans have long relied on the Postal Service as a source of stable employment, with our guest tracing this history back to the legal end of slavery. Amid the uproar over recent efforts to undermine the USPS, we examine this history and the role Black postal workers played in the union and civil rights struggle.

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