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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One, en route Joint Base Andrews from West Palm Beach, Florida on February 16, 2026.
ERASURE

Trump Marks Black History Month With Slave Demand

The appeal comes days after a judge ordered the administration to restore the slavery exhibit, citing George Orwell’s 1984 as part of her ruling.

Farrah Tomazin

Brian Quijada
WAIT FOR IT

Could This Show Be the Next ‘Hamilton’?

The comparisons are already being made with “Mexodus,” the new musical that just premiered in New York.

Tim Teeman

U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 15, 2025.
WHITEWASHED

Trump Finds New Way to Rewrite History at National Parks

“The Scourged Back” photo is among the effected displays under the president’s crackdown.

Ewan Palmer

Clay Travis
LOGIC LEAP

Fox Pundit Compares Slavery to Plane Crashes in Absurd Rant

President Donald Trump fumed this week that the Smithsonian dwells on “how horrible our Country is, how bad slavery was.”

Erkki Forster

Donald Trump
‘WOKE IS BROKE’

Trump Tells Smithsonian to Stop Saying ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

The president is annoyed that America’s history museums say “nothing about the future.”

Josh Fiallo

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the “Reconciliation Monument,” a Confederate memorial criticized for depicting a sanitized view of slavery, will be returned to Arlington National Cemetery.
REWRITING HISTORY

Hegseth Puts Up Confederate Statue That Whitewashes Slavery

Arlington National Cemetery says the monument includes “highly sanitized depictions” of enslavement.

Janna Brancolini

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Daguerreotypes showing (L-R): a Congo slave named Renty, who lived on B.F. Taylor's plantation, "Edgehill"; Jack, a slave from the Guinea Coast (ritual scars decorate his cheek); and an unidentified man.
JUST OUTCOME

Harvard Yields After Legal Battle Over its Slave Photos

The university is handing pictures taken during a vile pseudoscience “study” in 1850 over to a South Carolina Museum.

Tom Sanders

Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana.
CANNOT STAND

South’s Biggest Antebellum Mansion Mysteriously Burns

Police are still probing why an enslaver’s 53,000 square foot house was reduced to rubble.

Kenneal Patterson

Harriet Tubman
CIVIL WAR HERO

Harriet Tubman Awarded Rank of General for Civil War Raid

The legendary Underground Railroad conductor was the first woman to lead a wartime military action in the U.S.

Janna Brancolini

A boat carrying the Afrorigens expedition team sails past the mouth of the Bracuí River, where the shipwreck was discovered, near the island of Cunhambebe Mirim.
UNEARTHED

How Researchers Found a Slave Trafficker’s Long-Lost Ship

The exact location of the ship’s remains was unknown for nearly 200 years.

Amanda Yen

Wilson Elementary
‘UNACCEPTABLE’

Teacher in ‘Slaves and Hobos’ Furor on Leave Indefinitely

An investigation into a newsletter item inviting children to a “We Haz Jazz!” event is underway.

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