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Black women made up 53 percent of the Black labor force In 2018.

Since the 1970s, women have made up an increasing share of the Black or African American labor force. There were 10.7 million Black women in the labor force in 2018, representing 53 percent of the Black labor force. By contrast, women overall accounted for about 47 percent of the total labor force in 2018..

Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women.

Black women in the United States experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. Both societal and health system factors contribute to high rates of poor health outcomes and maternal mortality for Black women.

Black Women and Reporting Crimes of Sexual Violence.

Sexual violence perpetrated against Black women is often ignored or dismissed due to untrue biases regarding their sexuality. However this myth and other very real issues have influenced the number of Black women who report sexual assault. For every 15 Black women who is raped only one reports her assault. In recent years, there has been an outcry on many Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on the system of silence that has existed around rape for many of their female students. For women of color, reporting crimes of sexual assault are rooted in relationships to institutions of power and commitments to community.