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SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2024
‘We’re not going back’
AN ENERGIZED KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKS TO HUNDREDS OF LOCAL UNION WORKERS ON LABOR DAY, MONDAY, SEPT. 2, ON THE SOUTH SIDE. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)
Kamala Harris stands with union workers in Labor Day trip to Pittsburgh by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
From Isaac Myers, a founder of the Colored National Labor Union in 1869, to Mary McLeod Bethune, the founding president of the National Council for Negro Wom-
en and the first woman president of the American Teachers Association in 1912, African Americans and labor unions have almost always gone hand in hand. "Almost" must be said, because not all unions had African Americans’
backs, such as the AFL autoworkers union in Detroit, which, according to many research experts, "missed opportunities" in Black people’s fight for civil rights and against police brutality in the 1930s. But generally speaking,
unions have been good to African Americans. There were plenty in the crowd as Vice President and Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris addressed hundreds of local union workers on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, inside the IBEW Local
Union No. 5 Building on the South Side. She wasn't alone. She brought a friend who you may have heard of. President Joe Biden, whose selection of Harris as his running mate in 2020 propelled Harris to where she is today—one
November 5 General Election away from becoming President of the United States. The A. Philip Randolph Institute, Pittsburgh Chapter, headquartered SEE HARRIS A3
Muriel Fox accepts award for her late father, Gerald Fox by Bill Neal
For New Pittsburgh Courier On Saturday, Aug. 10, Pittsburgh City League Hall of Famer and “Champions Live” Sports Talk Show Co-Host Robert “Rock” Robinson invited me to cover a very special event: the celebration of the Pittsburgh Duffers Golf Club and recognition of Mr. Gerald Fox, one of
the original founding fathers of the club. Mr. Fox was the husband of the late, great, Alma Speed
COMMENTARY Fox. Of course my initial reaction came into play...if there’s one sport I know zero to nothing about, it’s
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golf. (Yeah, I know some of you who read my column on the regular suggest that I don’t seem to know much about football or basketball, either...some even wonder if I actually ever played! Of course, you all know that jealousy is one of the deadly sins.) Gamer that I am, I took on the assignment for the New Pittsburgh Courier realizing that a parallel in historic timing would assuredly co-exist. As it turns out, it proved to be the best decision I made for covering a story all SEE FOX A7
PITTSBURGH DUFFERS CLUB MEMBER “ROCK” ROBINSON PRESENTS AN AWARD TO MURIEL FOX IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER, GERALD FOX, ON AUG. 10.
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AWARDS CEREMONY Friday, September 13, 2024 Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel 600 Commonwealth Place|Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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Robert Hill, Legacy Award honoree