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‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
By Michael Sainato

John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/john-sayles-matewan-unions

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‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/john-sayles-matewan-unions #UsUnions #WorkersRights #JamesEarlJones #Film #Culture #UsNews

Celebrating Juneteenth

Photography by Carl Van Vechten in 1950s Harlem:

1) actor James Earl Jones
2) writer James Baldwin
3) Billie Holiday
4) writer WEB DuBois

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Photos taken by writer, photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) in 1950s Harlem:

Actor James Earl Jones, writer James Baldwin, Billie Holiday

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