By Anthony Pignataro On a day of depressing news, here’s something else for you to ponder over: women aged 65 and older in Hawaii are more likely to live in poverty than men of the same age. So says a new report titled “The Economic [...]

By Taylor Crumpton Historically, black women have been leaders in organizing against social injustices and securing rights for their communities. Their efforts were essential to the women's suffrage movement and the Voting Rights Act, and they are currently at work to change discriminatory laws that lessen [...]

By Gillian B. White The importance of women’s economic health in the black community is hard to overstate. That’s in part because black women tend to shoulder a lot of their households’ financial burden. More than 80 percent of black mothers are the breadwinners (defined as [...]

By Judith Ohikuare Black girls and women may be magic, but the impact of their power often goes unrecognized, or even penalized, in society and by the government. In "The Status of Black Women in the United States," a new report from the Institute for Women's [...]

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” [...]

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. [...]