…The order is the latest move by the #Trump admin to quash recognition of #BlackAmericans’ contributions to the nation & to gloss over the legal, political, social & economic obstacles they have faced.
Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on #BlackAmerica itself,”Ibram X. Kendi, race historian & bestselling author, said. “The #BlackSmithsonian, as it is affectionately called, is indeed one of the heartbeats of Black America…&…also one of the heartbeats”of the nation at large.