The university’s president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Appeasing Trump Is a Futile Sugar High
How the American Diabetes Association tried to hide a critical editorial published in its own journal—to no avail
Posted inPolitics
Marking Juneteenth
Black Americans must push back against the Trump administration’s efforts to erase the past.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s Appalling Racial Legacy
The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act has cemented President Trump’s legacy in erasing civil rights and equal opportunity.
Posted inWorking in America
Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is Up
Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class.
Posted inTAP
Hegseth, Xi, Stalin
Paranoid purges of generals and admirals are common to dictators and tin-pot wannabes.
Posted inPolitics
Whitening American History
Trump’s efforts to remove Black people from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.
Posted inTAP
Resistance Comes to Higher Education
Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead end.