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‘Excellence’: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates HBCUs amid attacks on Black history

The Smithsonian’s African American history museum has partnered with HBCUs to display archival materials

The Guardian - US

Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth

The United Daughters of the Confederacy set out to make slavery respectable again by promoting ‘the lost cause’

The Guardian - US

These activists are ‘flooding the zone with Black history’ to protest against Trump’s attacks on DEI

The Freedom to Learn campaign included panels and coffee meetups and will end Saturday with a rally and prayer

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"Sickening" order censors Black history

"You can't make America great again if you don't acknowledge all the things that America is"

Salon

Head of DC’s African American museum on leave as Trump targets Smithsonian

Kevin Young has been absent since 14 March, weeks before president’s order taking aim at ‘anti-American’ content

The Guardian - US

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view

The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’

The Guardian - US

‘It’s a scary time’: artists react to White House’s recent targeting of Smithsonian Institution

Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump’s attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US’s past

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What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important?

A Trump executive order aims to uproot ‘anti-American ideology’ from the US museum and research complex

The Guardian - US

Oprah Winfrey To Give Future Earnings From Weight Watchers Stock To African American Museum; Steps Down From Board

The 70-year-old former TV host served on the company's Board of Directors since 2015.

International Business Times UK

The idea of a national African American museum went back 100 years before its opening

The museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of legislation that funded it this week, but it can trace its origins back to Black veterans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War.

WEKU

‘A search for ourselves’: shipwreck becomes focus of slavery debate

Vessel that sank with more than 200 transported people onboard is being used to humanise the story of slavery

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