A Call for Racial and Gender Equity on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

Commentary Race & Inequality

A Call for Racial and Gender Equity on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

August 13, 2020

Tags: wealth inequality, gender wage gap, racial income gap, equal pay, equal pay day, racial inequality, wealth gap, gender inequality, black women

CHAPEL HILL, NC - AUGUST 18: Students walk through the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 18, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.The school halted in-person classes and reverted back to online courses after a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases over the past week. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: People receive food at the Thessalonica Christian Church during a distribution on October 17, 2020 in New York City. The Bronx, a borough which has long struggled with poverty and neglect, has been especially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The official unemployment rate in the Bronx is 21% while the unofficial number is presumed to be almost twice that. With many residents unable to afford health care and being home to a significant amount of front-line workers, the Bronx has the highest COVID-19 death rate in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - AUGUST 12: A Mexican immigrant embraces her son at town hall-style event held to reassure the nervous local immigrant community on August 12, 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut. State and local government leaders listened as immigrants spoke of their fears in an atmosphere of racially-charged tweets from President Trump and following the El Paso mass shooting, which targeted people of Mexican heritage. Officials reassured them they would continue to receive support in the state Connecticut, even as the federal government pursues the President's anti-immigrant agenda. The event was held at the Building One Community immigrant center in Stamford. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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