In response to last week’s resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, in today’s Race + Power newsletter, we cover the issue of backlash. We begin with Cyndi Suarez’s recent article on the state of Black women’s leadership. Next, how racial “affinity classes” in US schools draw praise—and lawsuits. Then, from underinvestment to burnout, a recent report details the struggles women and nonbinary leaders of color face and a path forward to address these challenges. Finally, the Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine winter issue offers a powerful vision of humanity, healed and thriving, in a world based in love.