The Quiet Collapse of Black Studies in Higher Education It began with DEI. Across the country, universities restructured diversity offices. Vice presidents reassigned. Chief Diversity Officers stepped down. Entire teams let go or absorbed into other units. At first, many described it as budget tightening. Political pressure. Administrative reshuffling. But what we are witnessing now suggests something more structural. The target has shifted. Now it is African American Studies. Gender Studies....

Hi Reader, Can I be honest with you? You're tired. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that sits in your bones after years of being the one who holds it all together. The one who figures it out. The one who never gets to say "I don't know what to do" out loud because everyone is looking to you for answers. You've built something impressive. You've pushed through seasons that would have broken other people. And you've done most of it alone. But lately, something feels different....

Reader, For a long time, many of us learned to keep work relationships at a distance. Not because we did not like our colleagues, but because we were taught that staying strictly professional was safer. Smarter. Less risky. But I have watched Black women navigate microaggressions at work with strength not because they handled it alone, but because they had people inside the organization who understood exactly what was happening. No explaining. No minimizing. Just recognition and support. Here...