This Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, I Want To Be Paid What I’m Owed

One of my favorite sayings is, “know your worth, then add tax to it.” As an undergraduate student at Hampton University, I said it during the on-stage question portion of a pageant I competed in and the crowd went crazy. The funny thing is, I don’t really know my worth — not in terms of respect or how I should be treated emotionally — but my literal price. I know that I’m a Black woman with two journalism degrees and a lot of experience, but I don’t know how to translate my resume into numbers behind a dollar sign.

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