May 2, 2014
#Sidney's Picks: Howard's Adjuncts Vote to Unionize by Margin of >90%
The Best of the Week’s News
- The adjunct faculty at Howard University voted by a margin of over 90% to join a union, making Howard the first historically black university with unionized adjuncts.
- It sounds like an urban legend: A woman finds a plea for help from a prison laborer in China stitched inside her Saks 5th Avenue shopping bag. But DNAinfo tracked the author down and authenticated the letter.
- How vaccine denialism in the U.S. is killing kids in Brazil.
- How did Afghanistan’s “Torturer in Chief” end up living in a pink house outside Los Angeles?
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]