The world expects Black women to be invincible, carrying everyone else’s burdens while silencing their own pain. But the mental health price of always being the strong Black woman is devastating — a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Bias against Black women in the workplace has unfortunately ...

There’s a powerful truth in seeing Black women thrive in business: when we rise, the whole world shifts. Black women now own an estimated 2 million businesses—that’s 14% of all women-owned firms and ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

Black women have been systematically pushed out of the labor force this year. Unemployment rates for Black women rose from 6.7% to 7.5% between August and September, compared with just a 3.2% to 3.4% ...