Their reinvention stories are inspiring. For Black women, the instability of today’s job market has been particularly severe. Since early 2025, approximately 600,000 Black women have become unemployed ...

Throughout history, Black women have been a driving force in redefining industries, from entrepreneurship to leadership roles across various sectors. Throughout history, Black women have been a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

February is Black History Month, but the contributions of the legendary women on this list continue to reverberate every month of the year. These extraordinary women represent just a small portion of ...

Written by Erica Marshall-Lee, Ph.D., ABPP, on behalf of the Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates Why are there such monumental barriers for a Black woman to become president of the United States? The ...

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 ...

Black women are underrepresented in senior roles in British academia. As of May 2024, there were only 70 Black women professors. This is less than 1% of all female professors in the UK. Black women ...

Detroit mayoral candidate Mary Sheffield arrives to cast her ballot with family, friends and supporters at the Horatio Williams Foundation voting site in Detroit on Nov. 4, 2025. Sheffield defeated ...

The chant that greeted Mary Sheffield on Detroit's primary election night rang true Tuesday: "First female mayor! First female mayor!" Detroit ― one of the country's Blackest cities ― finally joined ...