A musical project sheds light on Boston's Black labor history

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An album and podcast from the Silkroad Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens was inspired by the Black and immigrant labor that built America’s railroads. In Boston, Black sleeping car porters unionized for better wages and humane hours.

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