Happy New Year from the LHT team! 2020 was certainly a historic year, and here on the Labor History Today podcast the past and present kept colliding in interesting and unusual ways. Back in August, Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park talked with us about black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor.The show also featured poet Martin Espada reading his poem "Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio," written for his friend, historian Howard Zinn. Here’s our show from August 30, 2020, updated with today’s Labor History in 2, "The Power of Folded Arms and Marching Feet."

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