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 ...

August, which is heralded as Black Business Month, should have been a time to celebrate the Black labor force. But last month’s jobs report showed unemployment rates increased for Black workers — and ...

Over the past two years, a troubling trend has started to take shape in the media; for a large majority of journalists, DEI framing became the default for covering Black businesses. What should be ...

Economists warn that cracks have started to emerge in the U.S. labor market – including among the country's Black workforce. The unemployment rate for Black Americans hit 7.5% in July, up from 6.1% a ...

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