Black women don’t fare well economically nationwide, considering they still earn just .64 cents for every dollar a white man earns. But Utah ranks as one of the worst for Black women. There Black women receive just 60 cents for every dollar earned by white men…. “According to a study by the Washington, D.C.- based National Women’s Law Center, Black women in Utah can expect to lose $950,720 to the wage gap over the course of a 40-year career. It’s the 10th largest gap in the nation,” reported The Salt Lake Tribune. Breaking it down to hard cash, this means on average, a 40-year wage loss would amount to a whopping $877,480 or a loss of $21,937 a year… [ MadameNoire ] Black Women Continue To Face Racism In Catholic Church When Pursuing Religious Vocations This might not be talked about often, but entering the religious arena is a viable profession — for some. According to Shannen Dee Williams, Assistant Professor in the department of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Black women face racism when they decide to pursue religious vocations. Women in general are sorely missing from the relational community. In fact, according to a national study done in 2010 by Faith Communities Today, only 12 percent of all congregations in the United States had a female as their senior or sole ordained leader. And according to Professor Williams, the percentage is even lower for Black women, especially in the Catholic faith… [ MadameNoire ] Remy Ma Spits A Hard Freestyle On Tony Touch’s Shade 45 Toca Tuesday Show Remy Ma got bars… With her verses on “All The Way Up” and the remix tearing up speakers across the country and her latest single with Fat Joe “Cookin” heating up, Remy and her better-half, Papoose, stopped by DJ Tony Touch’s Shade 45 radio show Toca Tuesdays and spit a venomous freestyle over Jay-Z’s “Where I’m From” instrumental. Remy utilized the slow flow to kick lines like “I ain’t even gotta try hard, these hoes diarrhea/they shit watery, get the f*ck outta here/they call me R-E-M-I-N-S-C-E, see me, I’m the best/all the rest, they all stressed/I got ‘em sittin’ on the bench, they all pressed…” [ HipHopWired ]
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If You’re A Black Woman Working In Utah Beware
