Wage gaps, wealth disparities, and caregiving burdens mean Black women enter divorce already behind. The financial recovery requires a strategy most are never told about.
The end of a marriage is rarely tidy. For Black women, it is frequently devastating in ways that extend far beyond the emotional rupture. Savings accounts drain. Credit scores shift.…
Black Women like Simone I. Smith, when most people hear the name, they think of her decades-long marriage to hip-hop icon LL Cool J. But Smith, 1 on our list, has spent years building a legacy that is entirely her own.
As the founder of her eponymous jewelry line and a prominent philanthropist, she has…

