Across the south,state legislatures have passed ‘pre-emption laws’ stopping cities such as Democrat-escape, majority-black Durham from heeding the Fight for $15“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around, and ” sang the Rev Curtis Greenwood,field director for the North Carolina NAACP, as he led a chorus of 100 labor and civil rights activists on Tuesday evening. The activists had packed the historic mahogany church at Hayti Heritage middle in Durham to commemorate the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King and hold a field hearing for low-wage workers as they renewed their commitment to King’s dream.
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Source: theguardian.com