April 4, 2025
Cover Story
As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges, and triumphs.
After President Trump’s executive order on March 31, 2025, which named two Smithsonian museums, one completed (devoted to the African American experience) and one underway (dedicated…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
in the name of “truth and sanity”, the Presidential Action will insert lies and insanity into our history and museums.
On March 27, 2025, the President issued yet another inane Executive Order, this one a “Presidential Action” titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Given…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
In a capitalist society, Black people have been unable to build generational wealth from the land that was stolen from them.
Systemic racism takes many forms, not the least of which is land theft. Simply put, Black people have lost a staggering amount of property over the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Think about it. They have demanded that the Pentagon delete tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen, remove photos of soldiers of multiple races and ethnicities at Iwo Jima, and purge images of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II because its name is the Enola Gay. Irrefutably stupid.
Mind you, these same people deride DEI programs! It has been a couple of weeks since the Signal Leak Crisis,where several of President Trump’s national security…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…
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