Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Black and neurodivergent identity in the workplace. Being Black in the workplace is far from easy. From dealing with ...

*ABC has begun to develop Baratunde Thurston’s “How to Be Black,” an animated project based on Thurston’s best-selling memoir of the same name.

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 ...