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My Black Job: Black History Month 2025

"On social media, typically accompanied by the #blackjob or #blackjobs hashtags, people (including celebrities) shared their “Black job,” pushing back on perceived racial stereotypes and xenophobic rhetoric." So, in honor of the theme of Black History Month: Blacks in Labor we wanted to acknowledge Black excellence on the job

Oakland Public Library

9 items

  • Black Fortunes

    the Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

    Wills, Shomari
    BookNew York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — 973.0496 WILLS
  • Black Titan

    A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire

    Jenkins, Carol, 1944-
    BookNew York : One World, c2004. — BIO GASTON
  • W. E. B. Du Bois's "Talented Tenth"

    A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership

    Sloan, Ella F.
    eBookNight Star Publisher dba JL Carpenter Design, 2016
  • Rise and Grind

    How to Out-perform, Out-work, and Out-hustle the Competition

    John, Daymond, 1969-
    BookNew York : Crown Business, [2017] — 650.1 JOHN
  • Black Founder

    The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider

    Spikes, Stacy
    eBookKensington Books, 2023