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New Trump Executive Orders Threatens Black History at Smithsonian Museum
In the latest assault on black history, President Trump targeted the Smithsonian Museum. Yet, the executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” seemed ironic as a faithful ...
Historians see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism
It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed." ...
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Hegseth’s Attacks on Black Troops Evoke Long History of Anti-Racist Struggle
Peter Hegseth is charging forward on the promise to De-Woke The Military, codified in Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” ...
Triumph and Tragedy: Dallas honors first Black police officer 128 years after his murder
In February, Dallas recognized its first African American police officer, Officer William McDuff, who was killed in 1896.
Dallas Honors 1st Black Police Officer 128 Years After He Was Murdered 2 Months Into The Job
Dallas has honored its first African American police officer, Officer William McDuff, who was tragically killed outside his ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress ...
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Critics see Trump attacks on 'Black Smithsonian' as effort to sanitize racism in US history
They say it's the administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans shaped the nation’s story.