In the past few decades, the restaurant industry has become the fastest-growing private employer in the nation. The industry also has the lowest paying minimum wage in many states, like Michigan.
Motown Museum CEO Robin Terry talks reduced capacity in the COVID-19 era and how a photo exhibit from former in-house photographer Jim Hendin reflects the demands for social change today.
"It's a block party on steroids," says Adriel Thornton, the co-president of the North Cass Community Union, the community organization that produces the free, one-day festival each year. It was scheduled for Saturday, September 12th.
Low wages, employment instability and now a pandemic. For years, the food and hospitality industry has been one of the least unionized in the nation. Post-COVID, this could change.
In the final installment of “COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience,” five documentary photographers created art that illustrates this week’s assignment: “Aspiration.”
Motown's mission to be 'The Sound of Young America' was itself a political act, says a musicologist. Listen to to a playlist of the label's political protest songs.
LaVette's new album "Blackbirds" has her covering songs popularized by Black female singers. But one of the tracks, "Blues for the Weepers," has a hidden history few know about.