Serving Tea. Setting the Table. Building What Comes Next.
In 2025, something happened that should have shaken the country to its core.
More than 600,000 Black women disappeared from the workforce.
Not because they lacked talent.
Not because they lacked leadership.
Not because they stopped showing up with excellence.
They were simply removed from the table.
Across industries and organizations, roles vanished, contracts ended, and careers built through years of dedication were suddenly disrupted. For many, the loss meant more than a paycheck. It meant lost stability, lost health coverage, lost momentum, and a painful reminder that systems we helped build were not always designed to hold us.
But here’s the truth.
Black women have never waited for permission to lead, build, or care for our communities. When doors close, we gather. When systems fail, we organize. When the moment demands it, we build our own table.
That is the spirit behind 600KSTRONG.
This campaign is an invitation to the 600,000 Black women whose brilliance and resilience remain undeniable. If the old tables pushed you out, we are building a new one and pulling up chairs.
At our table, there will be tea—not the kind meant for gossip, but the kind that invites truth, reflection, and connection. There will be communion, where shared experiences become collective strength. And there will be action, because this moment requires more than conversation.
The 600KSTRONG Campaign is about creating pathways forward. Together, we are setting the table for resources and support that help Black women move beyond this disruption and into their next chapter.
At this table you will find space for:
- Mental health and healing, because navigating loss and uncertainty requires care for the whole person
- Business creation and entrepreneurship, for the innovators ready to build something of their own
- Emergency outreach and community support, because no one should navigate a crisis alone
- Continuing education and skill building, to expand opportunity and open new doors
- Investing and financial empowerment, to help turn resilience into generational strength
This is not about simply returning to the way things were.
Our resilience has never been about making broken systems stronger.
It’s about making us unstoppable.
The truth is already being spoken. The tea is already being served. And across the country, 600,000 Black women are rising with new vision, new strategies, and new possibilities.
But this moment is also reminding us of something deeper.
For generations we were taught to wait — for systems to change, for institutions to respond, for someone else to come and make things right.
Yet history tells a different story.
The cavalry never rode in to save us.
And perhaps it never needed to.
Because the truth is the same truth our communities have carried through every era of challenge and reinvention:
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Through connection, resource sharing, collective investment, and courageous leadership, we will build what comes next together.
Not by trying to repair systems that were never designed with us in mind.
But by creating new pathways that make us unstoppable.
#600KSTRONG
Continue the Conversation
This dialogue draws on reporting, research, and conversations happening across many spaces. If you’d like to go deeper, here are a few articles and posts that helped inform this discussion:
- Trump’s Slash-and-Burn Economy Is Devastating Black Women | Kali Holloway, The Nation
- At the Edge of the Labor Market: What 600,000 Black Women Out of Work Tells Us | Andrew McCaskill, LinkedIn
- Black women were disproportionately impacted by DOGE cuts. A year later, they’re rebuilding careers for themselves and each other | Jennifer Liu, CNBC
- Black Women In The Workforce Are The Economic Warning Sign We Cannot Ignore | Kerbi Lynn, Her Agenda
- What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged from the Federal Work Force? | Natalie Y. Moore, Hammer & Hope
- The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Katica Roy, Fortune
