Federal Employee Resource Center

For more than forty years, federal employees have had a structured way to challenge discipline that feels excessive, inconsistent, or unsupported. That structure comes from the Dou...

A. Philip Randolph is not always the first name federal employees hear when they learn about civil rights. But his work helped change the relationship between Black workers, federa...

Recent labor-market data should matter to every federal employee who is watching workforce change unfold in real time. The Economic Policy Institute reported that Black women exper...

The history of Black women in federal service is not simply a story about access. It is a story about leadership built under pressure. For generations, Black women worked at high r...

For many Black federal employees, recent layoffs and anti-DEI actions are not just policy developments. They feel like a warning sign about whether one of the country’s most reliab...

Most people know NASA as the agency that put a man on the moon. Fewer understand that the success of America’s space program rests in part on the work of Black federal employees wh...

“Black history” and “FBI” are not phrases often spoken together. They should be.

This year marks 100 years of African-American special agents serving in the Bureau. That legacy is...

There are moments when public rhetoric attempts to reduce Black federal employees to stereotypes—minimizing generations of service with a single headline or comment. For Black GS e...

Black History Month inside the federal government is more than celebration. It is context. For GS-9 and above employees navigating promotions, discipline, reorganizations, or EEO c...

Black History Month is often framed as a moment to reflect on the past. For Black federal employees, it is also a moment to understand the present—and to ask harder questions about...

If someone has ever been responsible for planning a Black History Month event at work, the pattern is familiar. The group emails. The speaker outreach. The scramble to make somethi...

Black History Month has reached its 100-year mark. Black federal employment stretches back nearly 160 years. Those timelines invite a hard but necessary question for today’s workfo...