BLACK LABOR LEADERS ARE NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER. Labor Day 2020 comes at a time of unprecedented racial, political, and economic upheaval in the United States. The … actions and acts of radical defiance by workers have made it clear that systemic racism cannot be separated from the growing and perverse economic inequalities that have devastated Black workers and Black America for generations, and made them much more vulnerable to the current global pandemic. To win the corporate accountability required to rectify this inequality, our labor and worker movement must embrace this racial awakening and elevate and adequately resource Black people in roles of leadership and strategy.