Black women
Posted inEconomy, Elections, Politics & Policy

What a New Poll Reveals About Black Women in Mississippi and America’s Future

by Aallyah Wright

Over the years, Gabrielle Wyatt has heard directly from Black women nationally who described wealth as not only earnings, but about the conditions to live fully with financial freedom, abundance of choice, belonging, and thriving health. With the attack on Black economic and political power, Black women have been hit the hardest, disproportionately suffering from […]

Posted inEconomy, Employment, Money, Partner Content

Black Women’s Unemployment Is Rising. Economists Say It’s a Warning Sign.

by Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th and Aallyah Wright

Originally published by The 19th Unemployment rates over the past year have remained largely steady for every group of workers but one: Black women, whose unemployment rates have been rising.  For the past three months that increase has been even more pronounced, with Black women’s unemployment rate hovering at 6 percent — twice the rate […]

Posted inCulture, Politics & Policy, Public Safety, Rural Issues

Meet the Black Women Who Say Survivalism Is a Necessity, Not a Trend

by Rebekah Sager

Kelli McGuffey Pilkington hunts deer and squirrels, fishes whenever she can, stores jars of preserved food she cans herself — and keeps a holstered Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handgun under her T-shirt, just in case. Pilkington, 48, is a sturdily built 6-foot-tall Black biracial woman who lives in a 644-square-foot cabin on 18 acres of […]

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