November 12, 2026
The 75 Million Marketing campaign’s new video collection highlights Black girls who say federal workforce cuts and assaults on DEI have price them their livelihoods.
The 75 Million Marketing campaign has launched Faces of the Compelled Out, a video collection that includes Black girls who say federal workforce cuts and assaults on range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) underneath the Trump administration price them their jobs.
The collection spotlights professionals throughout public service, schooling, healthcare, and media who’re navigating the monetary {and professional} penalties of shedding their livelihoods. The marketing campaign additionally displays a broader sample of financial insecurity dealing with Black girls within the workforce. In keeping with a press launch shared with BLACK ENTERPRISE, 221,000 extra Black girls had been unemployed in December 2025 than in January 2025, representing a 37% enhance. In the meantime, the unemployment fee for Black girls climbed from 5.4% to 7.3% throughout 2025 earlier than dropping to six.8% in September 2026. The Nationwide Girls’s Regulation Middle additionally famous continued job losses within the authorities sector, the place girls accounted for 11,000 of the 17,000 positions eradicated that month.
The marketing campaign additionally factors to disparities in how lengthy unemployed employees stay out of labor. Its figures present that unemployed Black girls sometimes spend 15 weeks looking for employment, in contrast with 10.5 weeks for white girls and 11.9 weeks for white males. Moreover, 33.9% of unemployed Black girls have been out of labor for at the least six months.
“These girls did every little thing they had been informed would result in job safety: They earned their levels, constructed careers, and devoted themselves to public service. Nonetheless, they had been pushed out,” stated Maya Rupert, the marketing campaign director of the 75 Million Marketing campaign, a nationwide motion launched in 2024 that advocates for equal rights, wages, office security, and financial alternative for ladies.
She added that the video collection goals to place particular person experiences behind statistics that may in any other case overlook the folks affected by workforce modifications.
“The numbers verify what these girls are telling us: Black girls are being pressured out of labor sooner and saved out of jobs longer than their friends,” Rupert stated.
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