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AI Is Erasing Black Women’s Jobs
AI is quietly wiping out jobs but why are Black women being hit the hardest? The numbers are in, and the truth might shock you.
Dale Harris
June 10, 2025
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MAIN STORY
🔥 The Silent Job Crisis for Black Women
⚡ THE SPARK
"Most workers are unaware that this is going to happen," warns Anthropic's CEO. He’s talking about AI eliminating tens of millions of jobs, but the impact is already here and hitting one group with stunning force. While headlines tout a "strong" economy, the unemployment rate for Black women has been rising all year. Black women’s unemployment hit 5.8% in May. In just the first three months of 2025, their employment fell by over 300,000.
This isn't a future problem or a distant risk. This is a five-alarm fire happening right now, fueled by a perfect storm of political attacks on diversity, a hidden unemployment crisis, and code that is silently deleting the first rung of the career ladder.
🧠 THE LAYER BELOW
Federal jobs once seen as stable pathways for Black women are vanishing, shrinking by 33% in just one year.
DEI backlash is turning into a hiring freeze. “Diversity” is now treated like a dirty word in some boardrooms.
AI isn’t just killing factory jobs. It’s wiping out junior analysts, admin assistants, and customer service roles, the exact lanes Black women enter after college.
Since January, Black women have lost over 230,000 jobs, yet federal job losses only account for a fraction of that.
More than 180,000 Black women have dropped out of the labor force entirely, many due to caregiving, burnout, or no longer seeing a path forward.
Companies now require proof that AI can’t do the job before hiring a human, how many Black women are even getting that chance?
We’re not just talking layoffs. We’re talking erasure from the future of work.
🎯 THE REAL QUESTION
How do we ensure AI doesn’t widen the economic gap for Black women already battling systemic inequities?
🔮 WHAT’S NEXT
The narrative that we are powerless against the march of technology is a choice, not a fact. The future isn’t about stopping AI, but about demanding that the architects of our new economy design for equity from the start. This requires moving beyond a defensive crouch and building a new playbook for economic justice. It means investing in the human skills that AI cannot replicate, creativity, critical thought, and collaborative leadership, and creating new pathways to opportunity that don't depend on a "first rung" that no longer exists.
The goal is not to reclaim the jobs that are already gone. It’s to build the ones that can’t be automated away. We must refuse to be managed by our tools and instead become the architects of a future where efficiency doesn’t come at the cost of our humanity.
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