Black Auto Workers Hit Hard by Recession
Posted By The Editors | January 8th, 2009 | Category: Economic Justice | Comments Off
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A recent DefendersOnline story, “America’s Cold…Black America’s Pneumonia?” explored the fact that whatever the nation overall is experiencing economically hits the African-American community doubly hard. This New York Times article, “Black Workers Hurt by Detroit’s Ills,” reports on how the auto industry’s troubles are affecting Detroit’s black community.

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