Black women’s jobs in the firing line under Trump Gender 2 hours ago
Dr Carla Hayden, the first black person and first woman to serve as Librarian of Congress, was fired and replaced by Todd Blanche, a white man with no public background in library science, archival management or cataloguing.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the first black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, was also dismissed.
In December 2024, black women constituted 12 per cent of the federal workforce, but had accounted for 35 per cent of federal job cuts since January 2025.
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