Organizing Drive

They make a living driving bigshots around, but the city’s “black car” chauffeurs are only being driven one place: into debt. A union push to organize them has yielded unprecedented victories–and caught the labor movement’s attention.

Holy Owned Subsidiaries

Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement has become a north central Harlem powerhouse by running local housing and social service programs. It’s now poised to hand down power to its 96 member churches. It just needs to figure out how.