NEW YORK: Serena Williams served up a rallying cry for equal pay for black women on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), decrying that they would have to work on average eight months longer to earn the same as male counterparts in one year.

The record-breaking tennis star and world’s highest paid female athlete — who has spoken candidly about sexism and racism — wrote a nearly 1,000-word essay in Fortune magazine to mark Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

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