Despite historic gains in degrees and entrepreneurship, nearly 600,000 Black women were “economically sidelined” in 2025 ...
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings of Black women working full-time in 2025 were ...
This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When the unemployment rate for African American women hit nearly 7 percent in August, alarms went off ...
In 1993, one of us began a prestigious internship at a federal agency. During orientation, a lineup of high-ranking officials, nearly all White, save one person of color, addressed the interns. When ...