Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum and Awards Ceremony
October 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT
Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum and Awards Ceremony
Thursday, October 17th, 6-7:30pm
Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | North Reading Room
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Event will also be live-streamed
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Join the New York Labor History Association and the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Libraries, in collaboration with LaborArts, for the 10th Annual Bernhardt Awards with a Forum focused labor and the 2024 election.
AWARD – The 2024 Bernhardt Labor Journalism prize will be awarded to Kim Kelly for the article, “Lawsuit: Alabama is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds” (In These Times, April 19, 2024).
FORUM – “ELECTION 2024: What’s at Stake for Labor?” with Alethia Jones (movement educator and labor studies faculty), Lucia Gomez (NYC CLC Political Director) and Eric Blanc (organizer and labor studies professor).
The prize and the forum honor the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people. As head of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, she reached out to an astonishing number of people and organizations to document undocumented stories and unrecognized contributions, and to make links between past and present. The LaborArts project is dedicated to Bernhardt, and the online exhibit Making History Personal, explores her work. Debra Bernhardt and Rachel Bernstein’s Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives – A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City, features many of the materials Bernhardt brought to the Wagner Labor Archives.