Black Workers Central to National Union Battle
by Jamilah King on March 1 2011, 4:35PM
Public service workers are still standing up to union push backs.
Jamilah King
News Editor
New York, NY
Jamilah King is the news editor at Colorlines.com, coordinating story
assignments as news breaks, as well as covering urban politics and
youth culture. Before joining Colorlines she was associate editor at
WireTap Magazine, an online political publication that was a project
of The Nation Institute. Jamilah serves on peer review board of the
Youth Media Reporter, previously worked as contributing editor with
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, and has covered the youth vote for
Colorlines.com.
Jamilah is a former McNair scholar and Kopkind Fellow. She graduated with degrees in English and Black Studies from Pitzer College and also studied gender and development at the University of the West Indies along with labor history at City University of New York. Born and raised in San Francisco, Jamilah grew up in a single parent, working class household. She has written about her family's personal experience with violence, and is dedicated to using art to articulate new visions for the future. Jamilah participated in the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) where she organized passenger service workers in Oakland with the Center for Third World Organizing. She studied labor history at City University of New York and worked as an organizer with SEIU and low income workers in the Bronx. She has also volunteered in the HIV community, doing outreach with Bay Area Young Positives and the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, Gays, and All-Sexuals in Kingston.
Jamilah frequently appears on community radio and media conferences
around the country, including National Conference on Media Reform and
Allied Media Conference. Jamilah's writing has also appeared on New
America Media, TheNation.com, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Alternet,
and Racialicious. She's an avid basketball fan and a recovering music
junkie.
Check out Jamilah's media appearances here.
Jamilah tweets at @jamilahking.
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