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 nearly half of all Black-owned businesses in the U.S. From 2019 to 2024, revenue among Black women-owned firms grew by 80%, with employer firms led by Black women seeing a staggering 102.8% surge in earnings.
"What we see happening is what I consider to be a rebranding of the work," Dr. Hackett tells MadameNoire. "It is the exchange of acronyms or language used to describe the work that has been done for so many years."
Sometimes the woman you admire is in your own camp.
Twenty two staffers in Kamala Harris' office, past and present, complained of an 'abusive' or dysfunctional work environment.