{"id":3340,"date":"2025-02-20T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:03:52","slug":"4-places-to-hire-black-freelancers-because-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/4-places-to-hire-black-freelancers-because-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Places to Hire Black Freelancers, Because Y&#8217;all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from a stock image site. It shows a stock image of two Black people, a man and a woman, sitting on a white couch against a beige wall, cuddling with their faces close together and looking kind of intimate with an open laptop in front of them. It\u2019s displayed against a dark blue screen with the words, \u201cPhotos \/ Computer \/ Cheerful Black Freelancers Cuddling While Having Break.\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-3348\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-1-768x615.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is not from a stock image search. This is just something Google gave me when I was searching <em>black freelancers<\/em>, like, \u201cHey, how about these two inexplicably intimate people we\u2019ve randomly decided are freelancers of some type?\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m happy that, as DEI programs in every industry are under attack (in honor of Black History Month, I guess?), I\u2019ve seen very few advertising people come out and say, \u201cI actually think that doing away with DEI is a good thing.\u201d And the ones I have are\u2026 not what I\u2019d consider to be good people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outliers who criticize it usually do it on the basis that, <em>allegedly<\/em>, it\u2019s about handing jobs to underqualified people in the name of diversity, which relies on the assumption that those people couldn\u2019t possibly qualify for said jobs without a nudge, instead of ensuring that equally\/more-qualified people are included for consideration in the midst of hiring biases toward people who are, in general, straight white dudes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do have to mention, at the risk of killing the mood, even before recent attacks on DEI, <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/agency-news\/ad-agencies-lay-chief-diversity-officers-inside-dei-cuts\/2593346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the focus was falling off in agencies<\/a>, with programs launched in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder starting to fall off and agency culture suffering for it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/news\/black-representation-advertising\/708345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The ad industry remains overwhelmingly white<\/a>, and ethnic diversity actually <em>declined<\/em> over 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yay! Everything\u2019s cool and fun, and here are four places you can look to hire Black freelance creatives, to make sure you\u2019re choosing from the full cohort of available talent and getting the best of the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Places to Hire Black Freelance Creatives, Because Y&#8217;all<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blackfreelancer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Freelancer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one leans to the tech-heavy side, so if you\u2019re looking for web design, mobile app design, UX design, and such, it\u2019s a great resource, <em>but<\/em> you can get logo design, social media, and the like as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.blackmarketers.org\/p\/marketing-freelancers-directory-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BMAA Marketing Freelancers Directory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of the Black Marketing Association of America. Access to the directory is $50, but it hooks you up with freelancers in every marketing discipline imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackstockfootage.io\/creative-directory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Stock Footage Creative Directory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like it says on the tin, lots of professionals for stock footage, photos, and music, but also videography and production, photography, music production, and all the things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freelancersunion.org\/resources\/black-freelancers-web-directory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freelancers Union Black Freelancers Web Directory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freelancers Union provides a constantly-updated database, currently nearly 900 strong, of freelancers and businesses in every discipline specializing every industry imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Also\u2026 that resume screener, though.<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from a stock image site. It shows a stock image of two Black people, a man and a woman, sitting on a white couch. She\u2019s hugging him from behind, his arm is around their head, and they have an open laptop on the table in front of them. They look very happy about something, with big smiles. It\u2019s displayed against a white screen above a grid of other stock photos for sale, next to the words, \u201cImage, Stock Photo, Cheerful black freelancers cuddling while having break\u201d and a blue \u201cDownload\u201d button.\" class=\"wp-image-3349\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cuddling-freelancers-2-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seriously, it came up multiple times, with an assortment of couples. I\u2019m assuming one or both of these folks here just landed an awesome freelance gig, so they\u2019re pretty jazzed about it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s also LinkedIn, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/blog\/engineering\/responsible-ai\/responsible-ai-update-testing-how-we-measure-bias-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swears it\u2019s been managing its algorithm to avoid bias<\/a>, and then\u2026 you go and hamstring your search by using an automated resume screener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have all kinds of thoughts about AI screeners, but the most pertinent one here is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisherphillips.com\/en\/news-insights\/ai-resume-screeners.html\">they\u2019ve been shown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2024-openai-gpt-hiring-racial-discrimination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> to prefer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white male candidates<\/a>. In the year of our Lord 2025 \u2014 this remains an ongoing problem. Part of the problem is that when the AI is trained on the existing, unbalanced job market, it\u2019s going to produce unbalanced results. (Garbage in, garbage out. <a href=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/when-to-trust-a-robot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AIs aren\u2019t magic<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re still working through that concept, <em>please<\/em> contact me.) Have your AI resume screener regularly checked for bias, make sure your job postings don\u2019t include any rigid criteria that can exclude entire classes of people, and consider actually making your own decisions as a human being from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(And one last note: Actually considering said freelancers on their merits, instead of just adding them to your freelance roster and never calling them up to bat, is on you.) Go to your old staffing buckets, also go to new buckets, and be confident the person you choose really is the best. And maybe you and your new creative will look like those people in the stock image there, who appear to be <em>super<\/em> stoked about something, and I don\u2019t know what it is but I\u2019m happy for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m happy that, as DEI programs in every industry are under attack (in honor of Black History Month, I guess?), I\u2019ve seen very few advertising people come out and say, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[12,45,60],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-biz","category-the-humanity","tag-agency-life","tag-job-hunting","tag-race"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4 Places to Hire Black Freelancers, Because Y&#039;all - 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