Trump’s proposed changes to professional degree classifications are being framed as routine updates—a neutral recalibration of what counts as a “professional” program. But once you look past the bureaucratic wording, the impact becomes clear: the degrees and pathways most used by Black women are the ones being redefined...

Black women saw this coming. We’ve been saying it because it was already happening to us. We warned that electing this administration would come at the highest cost: our democracy itself...