A great new documentary film, "Trash Dance," depicts the grace and warmth of city sanitation workers and the dignity of their work. This is just the sort of film the DC Labor FilmFest has brought to metropolitan Washington, D.C., audiences each year since 2001, but "Trash Dance" needs a small amount of financial support to come to the silver screen.

February is Black History Month and one of the noteworthy events in African American history is the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike that began Feb. 11, 1968.  It was on that day that, after years of discrimination and injustice, the African American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., began their strike for economic justice and dignity. They sought to join AFSCME Local 1733.