Black Women Deserve Better
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Black Women Deserve Better is research grounded, culturally specific platform for the upwardly-mobile Black woman who knows the system is not broken. It’s working exactly as designed, and she needs a sharper set of tools to navigate it.
“The Mule Test…” examines how a small favor becomes an ongoing assignment, and what happens when a Black woman stops accepting it.
Listen here 🎧 tomorrow, October 8th, 2026… substack.com/@bwdb/note/c...
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Black Womens Deserve Better (@bwdb)
They called her dependable. But then she became unavailable.
Suddenly, her time was everybody’s business.
“The Mule Test…” examines how a small favor becomes an ongoing assignment, and what happens ...
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October 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
“The Mule Test…” examines how a small favor becomes an ongoing assignment, and what happens when a Black woman stops accepting it.
Listen here 🎧 tomorrow, October 8th, 2026… substack.com/@bwdb/note/c...
Listen here 🎧 tomorrow, October 8th, 2026… substack.com/@bwdb/note/c...
On the invention of romance, its adoption across class lines, and the gap between feeling loved and being protected.
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The Poorest Men Invented Romance. The Richest Men Kept It Because It Works Even Better When You Have Money.
Once you understand who invented it and why they needed it, the confusion starts to make a lot more sense.
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October 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM
On the invention of romance, its adoption across class lines, and the gap between feeling loved and being protected.
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-poores...
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If the same tools are available to investigate everyone, why are Black women scholars so often singled out?
The new Academic Lynching podcast examines selective scrutiny, unequal standards and what happens when an allegation becomes a public campaign.
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The new Academic Lynching podcast examines selective scrutiny, unequal standards and what happens when an allegation becomes a public campaign.
Listen on Substack.
Academic Lynching in the Age of AI: How Black Women Can Protect What They’ve Built
Academic Lynching in the Age of AI...The New Politics of Scrutiny and Black Women’s Intellectual Defense.
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September 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM
If the same tools are available to investigate everyone, why are Black women scholars so often singled out?
The new Academic Lynching podcast examines selective scrutiny, unequal standards and what happens when an allegation becomes a public campaign.
Listen on Substack.
The new Academic Lynching podcast examines selective scrutiny, unequal standards and what happens when an allegation becomes a public campaign.
Listen on Substack.
September 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The Fourth Wealth Rush is a Black Women Deserve Better podcast about technology, work, ownership, and the price of arriving late…
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The Fourth Wealth Rush: AI & the Race for Black Women’s Economic Power
In this episode, we examine how AI is reshaping customer service, administrative work, creative industries, hiring, and professional advancement. We separate legitimate AI ethics concerns from the cos...
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September 21, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The Fourth Wealth Rush is a Black Women Deserve Better podcast about technology, work, ownership, and the price of arriving late…
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-fourth...
The Customer Service Trap
How Black girls can be conditioned to become indispensable, steered toward service, and kept far from the money, authority, and prestige their labor sustains.
A Black Women Deserve Better analysis…
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How Black girls can be conditioned to become indispensable, steered toward service, and kept far from the money, authority, and prestige their labor sustains.
A Black Women Deserve Better analysis…
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-custom...
The Customer Service Trap: When Being Helpful Becomes a Lifetime Job Description
You may not have chosen the safe lane. The safe lane may have been presented as the only sensible place for a ‘woman like you.’
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September 18, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The Customer Service Trap
How Black girls can be conditioned to become indispensable, steered toward service, and kept far from the money, authority, and prestige their labor sustains.
A Black Women Deserve Better analysis…
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-custom...
How Black girls can be conditioned to become indispensable, steered toward service, and kept far from the money, authority, and prestige their labor sustains.
A Black Women Deserve Better analysis…
bwdb.substack.com/p/the-custom...
Their importance is not based on celebrity. It comes from professional service, survival, leadership, public testimony, and the long work of carrying 9/11 beyond the morning itself…
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You Remember 9/11. Do You Remember the Black Women Who Worked, Fought, Survived, and Led?
A uniform can make someone visible during disaster and nearly invisible once the memorial language settles in…
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September 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Their importance is not based on celebrity. It comes from professional service, survival, leadership, public testimony, and the long work of carrying 9/11 beyond the morning itself…
bwdb.substack.com/p/you-rememb...
bwdb.substack.com/p/you-rememb...
“The most revealing part of a public insult is often the moment after it lands. Someone says the thing that polite society prefers to keep coded. A Black woman answers without begging to be recognized as human. Then the room starts measuring her response…”
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When the Dog Whistle Becomes Ordinary Speech
A public insult can be personal, political, and useful to an entire audience at the same time...
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September 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“The most revealing part of a public insult is often the moment after it lands. Someone says the thing that polite society prefers to keep coded. A Black woman answers without begging to be recognized as human. Then the room starts measuring her response…”
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Opening for business today: an oral history booth at the Sankofa Festival in Oak Bluffs, along with a tour of the African American Heritage Trail. Sankofa is a verb, and useful advice…
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Opening for business today: an oral history booth at the Sankofa Festival in Oak Bluffs, along with a tour of the African American Heritage Trail. Sankofa is a verb, and useful advice: it teaches us t...
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August 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Opening for business today: an oral history booth at the Sankofa Festival in Oak Bluffs, along with a tour of the African American Heritage Trail. Sankofa is a verb, and useful advice…
substack.com/@bwdb/note/c...
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What was the path at present a hardship that became one which made you prouder in retrospect?
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Happy 70th to Anita Hill today! How we will forever relegate her to one hearing room in 1991 as if courage packs up the moment the cameras leave, unaware of what she did afterward: Became an professor...
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July 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM
What was the path at present a hardship that became one which made you prouder in retrospect?
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Have you ever realized you were important to someone’s event… but never important to their everyday life? (I will talk about this soon)
July 28, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Have you ever realized you were important to someone’s event… but never important to their everyday life? (I will talk about this soon)
Everyone wants a wThink of one company in your city and write down whose premises you would rather be buying instead of peeping at.
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Everyone wants a windfall, but fewer discuss a deal: acquiring a company on the brink of its owners' retirement.
The upcoming 'Great Business Transfer,' according to CNBC, could be up to a $3 trilli...
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July 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Everyone wants a wThink of one company in your city and write down whose premises you would rather be buying instead of peeping at.
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