Trump’s efforts to remove Black people from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.
Smithsonian
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Bad Slavery Was
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Orwellian Assault on Black History
How do you clean up the Black experience in America to gloss over the history of slavery and Jim Crow?
Posted inTAP
Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist
Today on TAP: The ‘race-centered’ Smithsonian exhibits are bad, but there’s nothing race-centered in restoring Confederate statuary.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Black Culture and History Matter
It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.