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, [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

By Vanessa Williams A new report about the nation’s black women paints a familiar portrait of a group that is working hard on many levels to achieve the American Dream but is still falling short. Black women vote at high rates, have made significant improvement [...]

By Nora Caplan-Bricker It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more. Now, a sweeping [...]