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Maryland public sector unions share COVID-era concerns with lawmakers

Ongoing health conditions, employee recruitment and retiree benefits were among some of the labor-related issues Maryland public sector unions brought before lawmakers at a recent committee meeting. The Maryland General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Pensions’ meeting delved into a number of labor-related issues, including matters facing various unions at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic […]

French football legend Lilian Thuram tackles the scourge of white thinking in new book

People aren’t born white, they become white.” This realisation dawned on the former French footballer, World Cup winner and anti-racism activist Lilian Thuram while he was engaged in talks with the white French organisers of a proposed exhibition on racism. As he recounts in the introduction to his new book, White Thinking, Thuram told those around the table […]