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REPORT: Black Women Should Be Thriving, But Racism and Sexism

By Kenrya Rankin In 1937, Zora Neal Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” made it plain that Black women are the mules of the world. A new study says that, in America at least, nothing has changed. “The Status of Black Women in the United States” [...]

June 9, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

It’s True: Black Women Are Working Harder And Getting Less In Return

By Lihle Z. Mtshali A new report, entitled The Status of Black Women in America, confirms what your mama has been telling you all these years: as a Black woman you will have to be twice as good to get half of what they have. [...]

June 9, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

4 of the Most Important Findings from a New Report on Black Women in America

By Claire Landsbaum On Wednesday, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released a report on the status of black women in the United States that’s, frankly, pretty depressing. It shows that black women face inequality almost everywhere: at work, in the U.S. criminal justice system, [...]

June 9, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

How unions help black women in America.

“The Status of Black Women in the United States,” released on Wednesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance, the Novo Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, is the latest evidence that economic justice is an essential plank of any anti-racist [...]

June 8, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

Report: Black Women Face Inequality in Every Part of Society

By Auditi Guha Raised by her grandmother in North Carolina, Chakilah Abdullah Ali was the eldest of six and had to raise her siblings growing up. Married at 16, she was abused on and off for the next 15 years and was incarcerated for fighting back against [...]

June 8, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|

We Need a Daycare Revolution

No Simple Solution While no other state quite matches Louisiana’s affordability, some have recently introduced similar plans. New York and North Carolina both passed new budgets including expanded childcare tax credits. In the meantime, President Trump’s multipronged childcare proposalwould allow couples making up to $500,000, [...]

June 8, 2017|Categories: Press Hits|