One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material. “He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought, ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’” Tefere, the executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, has

Growing up in rural Kentucky, Augusta Thomas witnessed the extreme measures elected officials would take to prevent African-American men from voting.