Economics

Private sector needs to honor King’s memory

Private sector needs to honor King’s memory

Not just at breakfasts, but with wages paid to workers of color

By Mariama White-Hammond Economics 0 Comments Apr 3, 2019

THE EVENTS of April 4, 1968, in Memphis are seared into America’s collective memory. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is clearly acknowledged as a national tragedy. Even as we lionize King, we have forgotten the events that brought him to Tennessee in the first place: support for unionized black sanitation workers striking(...)

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