Singing About Food Labor; Bill Lucy on the ’68 Memphis strike

<p>The <a href='https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/'>Gravy podcast</a> explores how, from Punchin' the Dough to Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia, music has long included songs about labor. On <a href='https://blackworktalk.com/'>Black Work Talk</a>, host Steven Pitts talks with labor icon William A. Lucy, whose more than fifty-year career included working on the sanitation workers campaign that brought Martin Luther King to Memphis in 1968.   And, on today’s <a href='https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/'>Labor History in 2:00</a>: Fighting for Equal Pay</p> <p>Produced/edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email <a href='mailto:laborhistorytoday@gmail.com'>laborhistorytoday@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the <a href='https://www.laborradionetwork.org/'>Labor Radio Podcast Network</a>, more than 100 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod</p> <p>Gravy is a production of the Southern Foodways Alliance.  The episode included in this week's LHT was produced by Matt Pearl and derives from a presentation originally shared at the 2019 Southern Foodways Symposium on Food and Labor. Visit <a href='https://www.southernfoodways.org/'>southernfoodways.org</a> for more helpings of Gravy. #LaborRadioPod @southfoodways @BlackWorkTalk @ILLaborHistory Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips</p>