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Suzanne Brooks

BlackCommentator.com Columnist Suzanne Brooks is the founder and CEO of International Association for Women of Color Day and CEO of Justice 4 All Includes Women of Color. Click here to contact Ms. Brooks.

21 pieces

Commentary

A Call for a Presidential Commission on Women – Women of Color

By Suzanne Brooks Columnist

Women of color are never more popular than when there is a need for strong voices in support of a cause. Other times, we are criticized as too loud or too aggressive. Just recently, someone called to say that Black women and other women of color should be jubilant that there will now be a…

Women of color are never more popular than when there is a need for strong voices in support of a cause. Other times, we are criticized…

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Commentary

Meeting A Critical Need – Women of Color

By Suzanne Brooks Columnist

BC welcomes Suzanne Brooks as a columnist. “Women of Color” will appear on a regular basis. The responsiveness of The Black Commentator in establishing this column is to be praised. Women of color need all the avenues available to make it possible for us to rise from the marginalization and social invisibility in which we…

BC welcomes Suzanne Brooks as a columnist. "Women of Color" will appear on a regular basis. The responsiveness of The Black Commentator in establishing this column…

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Guest Commentary

The Status Of Women Of Color In The American Political System: 2008

By Suzanne Brooks Columnist

Women of color are much more likely than white women to have less than a high school education or a high school education only. In starkest contrast, for example, nearly a quarter of Hispanic women have not completed high school (24.8 percent) compared with only 4.1 percent of white women. In response to the call…

Women of color are much more likely than white women to have less than a high school education or a high school education only. In starkest…

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