03/08/2026
It is International Women's Day. We hold up the voices of women workers from around the world.
Yesterday we had the pleasure of hearing from brilliant Black women in labor and academia.
Demanding Justice Then and Now:Black Women’s Union Organizing and Intellectual Work in collaboration with Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Greater NJ Cluw and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - SMLR and FHE Health. The members/leaders of unions and academia who attended made this conversation powerful and beautiful.
We had music from Mason Gross, poetry from .
Presenters:
*Sheri Davis, Rutgers SMLR Associate Professor and ED for CIWO
*Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Rutgers SMLR labor historian and author of Nannie Helen Burroughs: A tower of strength in the labor world
*Naomi R Williams Rutgers SMLR labor historian, and author of A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity.
*Valerie King, UWUA Sr. National Rep, President of GNJ CLUW, EVP CLUW
*Crystal M. Moten, Associate Director, Collections, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL) author of Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee
*Brittney Cooper, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women.
