Why I Always Have Two Jobs

Black people literally have to work twice as hard to get half as much

Jewel Burks
ZORA
Published in
8 min readSep 4, 2020

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Black woman with serious expression working on her laptop, looking out the window.
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A version of this story originally appeared on the Medium blog, Capital Innovations @ Collab Capital.

Since I’ve been able to work, I’ve worked multiple jobs. During summers growing up, I worked in the businesses started by my grandparents in Mobile, AL and passed down to my…

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Jewel Burks
ZORA
Writer for

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