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On Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we don’t have to be victims

By Patrice Onwuka
Published August 22, 2019 8:40pm ET
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On Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we don’t have to be victims
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, left, listens during an emotional appeal by participant Tonya Pinkston, right, who embraces moderator Mo Ivery at a womenís forum to bring attention to equal pay, balancing work and family, and the need for affordable child care, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Atlanta. | (David Tulis/AP)

Friday is supposedly Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. But I’m a black woman and I don’t buy into it. Neither should you.

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a symbolic holiday meant to represent the day in 2019 when black women’s earnings catch up what white men earned by the end of 2018.

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