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Is the EEOC Doing Enough To Protect Black Women With ADHD?

ADHD, a neurological condition typically associated with boys and white men, affects approximately 2.8 percent of adults worldwide, and studies show women and girls are significantly underdiagnosed. Black women and girls are the least likely to receive a diagnosis or medical care. 

If women as a whole are labeled “unstable” when showing signs of ADHD, it’s imaginable that the most underserved neurominority—Black women—will experience worse backlash due to racial and gender bias.

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Black Women Are Leaving the United States in Record Numbers—Here’s Why

After barely getting out alive, there was no way I was continuing medical treatment in the United States.

I know too well why Black women feel unsafe in America. The most insignificant parts of any other woman’s week become nexus events forcing Black women into a corner, where we…

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This is Not How You Protect Black Women

I doubt Will Smith is coming to my hood to slap a man on the corner calling me a bitch because I didn’t smile at his compliment. I doubt Will Smith is thinking about over 5.2 million Black women (myself included) who experienced domestic violence at the hands of a Black man as he assaulted Chris Rock on national television.

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