Author and historian Blair LM Kelley joins Daniel Ford on Friday Morning Coffee to talk about her book Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.
Caitlin Malcuit also discusses meal debt and lunch shaming following a New Jersey district superintendent's attempted policy change that would have punished students whose parents or guardians owe lunch fees. She shares which states have passed universal free school meals and a list of state healthy school meal campaigns from the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC).
“I was so fascinated and won over by washerwomen and their resistance, their voices, their advocacy. In spite of being people who were thought of as the bottom of the labor pyramid. It filled my heart with joy to write those stories.”
To learn more about Blair LM Kelley, visit her official website.
