Since June, hundreds of garment workers, working for fast fashion companies such as H&M in countries like India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, have been protesting layoffs due to overproduction during COVID-19. Because of fluctuations in the supply chain and product consumption, the pandemic has also heightened pre existing issues such as unfair wages and long working hours. Summer Journalism Fellow Maryam Gamar also analyzes H&M’s response to these protests, especially since H&M has advertised its efforts to relieve the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities.
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In 1921, Black Wall Street, one of the most prosperous and affluent African American communities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was set ablaze and burned to the ground at the hands of racial violence. Nearly 100 years later on Juneteenth, the legacy of the former entrepreneurial hub is remembered as the Tulsa community shares in the commemoration of African American freedom, establishing a sense of hope and opportunity for forward action and future reconciliation.
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