by Dalila Thomas

Let’s face it. These days, Black women are doing the damn thing–especially in the workplace. And whether you’re being brilliant in the boardroom or exceeding as an entrepreneur, there’s always room for improvement when it comes to getting the job done. Here are 10 Career Tips for Black Women that will help you keep it classy and cute and most importantly, respected, while bringing home the bacon.

by Dr. Artika R. Tyner

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. -- Marian Wright Edelman, Founder & President, Children’s Defense Fund

by Michelle Y. Talbert


According to a report by the Center for American Progress, women of color “are a principal force behind one of the most important components of America’s current marketplace and our nation’s future economy: entrepreneurship.” Specifically, from 1997 to 2013 women-owned firms grew by 59 percent overall and African American women-owned firms grew by 258 percent! Sisters are definitely doing it for themselves.

Much attention has been given to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s working woman feminist manifesto, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. While her perspective and insight as a woman is relatable, I still find my ability to connect with what she’s saying limited for me as a black woman.

White. Male. Middle-Aged.

Despite the year being 2015, this remains the prototype of professorship at most colleges and universities in the U.S. Those who exist outside this identity are often devalued in higher education and prone to a series of unpleasantries that many of us know as microaggressions.