According to the 2008 State of Black America report, published by the National Urban League, black women are now wearing many hats and are often carrying the weight of the entire African-American community on their shoulders.

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Black women have also had to learn to be creative and resourceful when it has been expected of them to carry the family. Cleaning houses, caring for other people’s children and cooking for schools or nursing homes have long been hailed as jobs that were held by predominantly African-American women. That was the age of yesteryear, the 50s and 60s. Today, you are apt to find Black women still as resourcesful, but perhaps a little more creative than their foremothers.

Black women professional stylists and fashion designers are now teaming up with major brand distributors to develop hair care lines and major clothing lines.

You can find the presence of entrepreneurial Black women in food distributors like Aunt Kizzy’s back porch, which routinely get excellent reviews.

There’s no other harder-working woman in politics (excepting Hillary Clinton!) than Condoleezza Rice.

FORE! Move over. Elaine Joyce, professional golfer, is about to hit the ball.

When I was a young girl growing up, I saw my mom, grandmother and even great grandmother work tirelessly at odd jobs, making a living for their families. Now my dad was present in the home and even worked two jobs himself. My grandfather was disabled and my great grandfather was deceased. I saw these women work all day long just to provide the basics for their large families. That helped to instill in me a work ethic that I have even til today. When you see hard working people around you, you can’t help but work hard yourself, right?

When the news reports that a certain ethnic group works hard and is the foundation of the single-parent family, I’m not so surprised. When they report that economic conditions are favorable for a certain class of people, I don’t get alarmed. Hard work just pays off.

I’ve been knowing that for years.

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