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Black Women’s Equal Pay Day: Let’s Get That 37 Cents

According to the National Women’s Law Center, black women working full-time jobs typically make only 63 cents for every dollar paid to their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts. Today is the date marking the extra days black...

Black Women Are Rising – When Will Our Pay?

Even the women’s movement – often criticized for its lack of women of color leadership, has seen a marketed shift with African American women and other women of color – like Fatima Goss Graves at the...

7 Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Facts That Prove The Fight For Equality Is Far From Over

The National Women’s Law Center estimates that, in Ohio, a Black woman has to work until age 82 to catch up to the career earnings of a white man at age 60. In California, she has to...

Waiting for an Equal Pay Champion

Op-ed by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of NWLC.

This Is How Long It Will Take To Achieve Equal Pay For Black Women In Every State

While Hawaii, Missouri, Oregon, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Maryland show statistics that would let black women catch up in their 70s, in the majority of other states black women would have to work well into their...

Is Banning Trans People from the Military Unconstitutional?

Emily Martin, General Counsel and VP for Workplace Justice at the National Women's Law Center, says the next steps are unclear. "It seems that the president chose to tweet without having a plan in place...