National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

Trump’s Info-Scrubbing Threatens the Public’s Right-to-Know Our History

Even veteran political observers are unclear about  how far Donald Trump and his Submissives will go to exorcise America’s history, and deny the public’s right-to-know.  The administration has already removed or altered historical and scientific information from federal websites. It also has launched plans to stop collecting significant environment-related data. A recent ProPublica headline reads: “Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse…

The Quiet Deletion of Black History Within Federal Agencies — and the Fight to Stop It

Alan Spears remembers visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with his parents in the 1970s. They wanted something educational, free, and fun to do with their only son, and the park was an obvious choice, given Spears’ interests — his favorite television show as a child was The Rat Patrol, about soldiers during World War II. It was there, at the Pennsylvania park, a roughly 1½-hour drive from Washington, D.C., that Spears became infatuated wi…

The Trump Administration’s Assaults on Black History

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant stories of resistance against chattel slavery in the United States. The move would have destroyed knowledge about how oppressed people in the United States have successfully fought for freedom. While the Park Service walked back the revisions after…

Trump's administration is dismantling D.E.I programs and locals say it's diluting history

EASTERN SHORE, Md. – This year, President Trump’s administration put a call out to federal agencies to get rid of anything representing diversity, equity, or inclusion. Those polices have now reached the Eastern Shore, and the community responds to government actions. Ethnic Erasure Jackie Robinson, The Nation Museum of African American History and Culture, and now Harriet Tubman. Historical figures and establishments many say have been under at…

Rev. Moss Leads Trinity Church to Rescue NMAAHC - Dallas Weekly

President Donald Trump’s crusade against diversity has attacked nearly everything touching on race, from freezing federal investigations of civil rights violations to scrubbing Harriet Tubman from a website on the Underground Railroad. But when he came for the Smithsonian Museum’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. — a.k.a. The Blacksonian — Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church o…

Trump administration’s edits are about race-based erasure — not race-blind policy

The last living link of my family’s story of origin in antebellum Southern Virginia died at age 105 a few years ago.My grandmother, Mamie Todd, was born in 1916. Her grandparents were born into slavery. She fought Jim Crow. She stood up for Black teachers and students in a segregated school system in which she taught in her early career. She supported my mom when, at 12, she signed on as a named plaintiff in one of the feeder cases to Brown v. B…