Your Rights at Work: Thursday, February 16, 2017

Hosts:  Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

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On today's show, Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, author of “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation,” a groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America. Plus we take listener calls on your rights at work. 

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