7 h. ago Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think

A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support itBy the time Jesse Owens bowed his head from the highest podium tier to be crowned with his fourth Olympic wreath in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Europe’s premiers knew they had a problem. In front of a record-setting crowd at games that should have been a lavish display of Aryan propaganda, Owens’s unmatched athleticism on the track humiliated the host Nazi regime and smashed one of the vital ideological pillars upon which European empires annexed the world into their racial order. Since the inception of race-based slavery and settler-colonialism in the 15th century, the novel idea that human beings could be stratified into distinct “races,” with superiority defaulting to white Europeans, was bolstered by the claim that white racial supremacy was the rational outcome of the “natural” biophysical, intellectual and aesthetic ascendancy of...

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52 h. ago Emmett Till memorial in Mississippi could be removed as part of DOGE

Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war against ‘DEI’ could spell end for national monument to Black teen murdered by a mob of white men in 1955

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8 d. ago The home of one of the largest catalogs of Black history turns 100 in New York

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country

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2 w. ago Inside Donald Trump and Epstein's relationship from 'terrific guy' to 'fun to be with'

Donald Trump's relationship with paedo financier Jeffrey Epstein has rocketed back into the spotlight after the most powerful civillian of all time and fomer top presidential advisor dropped a major 'bomb'

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2 w. ago Trump’s unprecedented immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone’

Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for themA 10-year-old girl showed up for a routine check-in about her immigration case – and agents cuffed and detained her mother on the spot. A 14-year-old boy was shaken out of bed at 6am when plainclothes officers showed up, unannounced, at his door for what the agents claimed was a “wellness check”. A 17-year-old girl has been detained for months with her newborn baby due to new restrictions on who can sponsor unaccompanied minor immigrants.Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children have arrived at the US southern border in recent years, seeking refuge. The Trump administration is now targeting them – and their caregivers – for deportation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone’

Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for themA 10-year-old girl showed up for a routine check-in about her immigration case – and agents cuffed and detained her mother on the spot. A 14-year-old boy was shaken out of bed at 6am when plainclothes officers showed up, unannounced, at his door for what the agents claimed was a “wellness check”. A 17-year-old girl has been detained for months with her newborn baby due to new restrictions on who can sponsor unaccompanied minor immigrants.Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children have arrived at the US southern border in recent years, seeking refuge. The Trump administration is now targeting them – and their caregivers – for deportation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘These guys are idiots’: Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black call out government’s Harvey Milk erasure

Team behind Oscar-winning biopic of the groundbreaking gay politician hits back at decision to remove his nameSean Penn, the Oscar-winning actor of the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk and Milk writer Dustin Lance Black have spoken out against US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to remove the gay rights icon’s name from a navy ship.“This is yet another move to distract and to fuel the culture wars that create division,” Black told the Hollywood Reporter in a phone call on Wednesday. “It’s meant to get us to react in ways that are self-centered so that we are further distanced from our brothers and sisters in equally important civil rights fights in this country. It’s divide and conquer.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Elon is terrific’: Trump holding press conference to celebrate Tesla CEO’s ‘last day’ at the White House

The press conference comes after Musk announced the official end of his time as a special government employee at DOGE

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3 w. ago Trump announces plan to farewell 'terrific' Musk from the White House and hints at tech billionaire's future role

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would hold a press conference with beleaguered advisor and billionaire Elon Musk to mark his last day as a special advisor.

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3 w. ago I walked across the south of America in a Black Lives Matter shirt — this is what happened

Documentary maker Rob Bliss set out on an epic journey to the Deep South in 2020. Cue the threats

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