Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

Julianne Malveaux: The corrosive ideology of Donald John Trump

The debacle at the Montgomery Pier, where enslaved people were once offloaded and sold, is described as a “brawl.” The August 5 attack on a Black dock worker, Damien Pickett, who attempted to do his job should be described as a vicious and racist attack, not a brawl.

Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

Historians, librarians, and hundreds of volunteers are documenting objects and signs displayed throughout the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and at sites managed by the National Park Service, fearing that the Trump administration’s recent mandates are imperiling public history. Two major volunteer groups — Citizen Historians in Washington, DC, and Minnesota’s Save Our Signs — are methodically cataloging thousands of artifacts, including plaqu…

DEI alive and well at Smithsonian; why Trump is right to target it

(The Lion) — When America’s premier cultural institution starts calling the founding of the country “a profound unsettling” and describes classical sculpture as a tool of white supremacy, something has gone very wrong. The Smithsonian museums, funded largely by taxpayers to increase knowledge and preserve our national heritage, have instead become laboratories for progressive ideology – and President Trump is right to demand a review. The instit…