Reflections on Academic Trauma and the Resignation of Claudine Gay

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For the past few years, I have noticed a trend in the news that I receive about Black women in academia. With every announcement of a new degree or position, there were almost always multiple stories of a death or dissolution. Therefore, I was not shocked last year after reading the headline “Two Black Women University Presidents Have Died” in the same year. I was also not…