In a world being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence, political rollbacks, and widening wage gaps, a dynamic panel of Black women leaders gathered at the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — “African Americans and Labor” is the 2025 Black History Month theme, dictated by the Association for the Study of ...

The nation was in a pivotal moment in 1894 when Labor Day was established as a federal holiday. Coming just three decades from slavery’s abolishment, Labor Day represented a key American paradox: Even ...

The unemployment rate for black workers has risen to the highest level since 2021, a development economists say is an indication that the labor market is softening. Recent labor market reports have ...

After spending more than 25 combined years promoting the trade union movement and protecting the right to organize in the United States and around the world, we see the report “And Still I Rise: Black ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Econ Griot, telling culture and economic stories on radio and beyond. The fight over DEI didn’t begin in boardrooms or HR ...

The first Black leader of the U.S. Department of Labor, former Secretary Alexis Herman, has died at the age of 77. Former President Bill Clinton nominated Herman to the role, which she held from 1997 ...

Demand for skilled workers in the trades is at a record high, as you might have heard. There’s a lack of workers currently employed in the trades - that is, welders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians ...

As the U.S. labor market falters, Black people are shouldering the burden more than any other American demographic. The Black unemployment rate is rising nationwide, and in Minnesota it has more than ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When Amazon cuts 30,000 jobs and Black workers hold nearly 20% of the roles being eliminated while making up just 13% of the workforce, that is not a coincidence. That is a pattern.