Ask yourself is Trump changing our culture and how?

• Black History is being rewritten

• The Statue of Liberty is crying as we persecute immigrants. I think France is going to ask for her back.

• Billionaires are making poop people poorer, and children will starve.

• Gay Rights are being trashed.

• Women are losing bodily autonomy.

• Diversity is bad.

• Education from our youngest to colleges is changing. They are trying to eliminate the Department of Education taking away programs that help at risk youth, school lunches, diversity, social services, and more. Colleges are being threatened to accept Trump's version of things. Foreign students are being prevented from coming here. Research is being eliminate. Prayer is becoming part of curriculum in several states. Some states are even teaching that Trump won the election in 2020

• Children will die with the changes in vaccination poliies.

• And there is more coming.

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Nottoway Plantation in LouisianaStory by Kaitlyn Greenidge• 1w •10 min read Harper's Bizarre

n May 2025, Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana, the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South, burned to the ground. Images of the big white columns at the front of the house engulfed in flames spread across social media. At first, they were accompanied only by the original audio of the wood burning. Many people noted it sounded like applause. But then came the remixes. People played gospel songs, hymns, Beyoncé’s latest country track, and perennial cookout bangers over the footage. “It’s like our ancestors are celebrating” was a common refrain. But others insisted that Nottaway Plantation could have been used as an educational space, despite the fact that it is primarily a resort and wedding venue and reports suggest staff avoided discussing the historical realities of enslavement.

The burning of Nottoway Plantation and its remixes are a perfect encapsulation of America’s current confusion around Black history. Black history contains stories of triumph and joy, but cannot be understood outside of the brutality of systemic racism. Do institutions acknowledge these complications and contradictions, at the risk of making some visitors uncomfortable?

Nottoway Plantation House, before the fire.© DEA / F. BARBAGALLO - Getty Images

As we approach Juneteenth, Black historical sites and cultural centers have found themselves under attack by the current administration. Juneteenth is perhaps a symbol of this fraught back and forth. A holiday originally celebrated by formerly enslaved Black people in parts of Texas to acknowledge the piecemeal nature of the abolition of slavery, it was federally recognized in 2021 by the Biden administration. It was a commendable impulse, but the recognition coming in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, has seemed to some critics as political pandering and less a desire for real change.

This can feel like a frightening moment for anyone who cares about history or truth. But it helps to remember that the origin of so many Black-history museums comes not from the federal government or elected officials deciding this history is important, but from ordinary people preserving and fighting for the truth about our past. This past spring, I spoke with leaders of Black historical and cultural sites in New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Kansas. The picture they painted of the future was both harrowing and inspiring.

A key part of the Trump’s regime’s psychic assault on the perceived gains of the Civil Rights Movement is relegislating the past—restoring the names of military bases to those of Confederate soldiers, firing the first Black female Librarian of Congress. Though the racial wealth gap persists, what the Civil Rights Movement did succeed in was breaking the illusion of a white nation and of American culture meaning solely white, Christian culture. The Black cultural gains of the last 70 years have been immense. This administration understands the soft power of culture and so has made culture and history makers its prime target in a propaganda war over what America actually means.

When the Trump administration came to power in January, among its first acts was to “scrub” government digital sites of Black history, deleting pages about Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, and others from military and park service websites, though some information was restored amid public outcry. In March 2025, though, President Trump made his intentions plain. In an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” Trump proclaimed, “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. …Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.” In the order, Trump singled out the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service for including programming and artwork that acknowledges race as a social construct and racism as a part of American power structures. Throughout the spring, the administration defunded the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the premier source of federal funding for museums across the United States, and cut funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an organization that funds much of the scholarship on American history in the nation’s universities and colleges.

This president was elected in part because of the manufactured hysteria around “DEI” and earlier “critical race theory.” This was a campaign orchestrated by far-right activist Christopher Rufo, who rightly bet on white America’s deep unease and defensiveness around histories of anti-Black racial violence to bolster a wave of backlash to the so-called Racial Reckoning of 2020 that would carry Trump back into power.

How are museums and cultural centers that focus on Black history responding to this moment? Perhaps it is best to look to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Originally a collection at the West 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library in Harlem, the Schomburg was founded in 1925 by an interracial group of librarians in response to an overwhelming demand from the public for books by and about Black people. It was named after the Afro-Puerto Rican archivist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, whose collection of books and art by members of the African diaspora made up the basis of the original collection. The Schomburg has, for 100 years, served as the premier research institution on Black life, art, and culture in the world.

Today it holds such treasures as parts of Malcolm X’s archives, documents signed by Haitian liberator Toussaint L’Ouverture, and an art collection that includes works by Lorna Simpson and Harlem Renaissance masters. In a previous life, I spent countless hours there as a research assistant, poring over the archives of Black newspapers from the 1920s, reading the long dead but still scandalous gossip columns of the Harlem Renaissance.

The Schomburg is part of the New York Public Library, a designation that shields it from much federal interference. Even so, the director, Joy Bivins, tells me, “Our membership is always committed 10 toes down to the preservation of materials related to Black history and culture, and our board is as well.” Bivins reminds me that the Schomburg was founded in 1925. That was a few years after the end of the Woodrow Wilson presidency, which effectively decimated the burgeoning Black middle and upper classes by segregating the federal workforce—a move the current administration has sought to mirror in its attacks on federal workers, who are disproportionately African-American. “All of the things that we are experiencing at this moment” in 2025, Bivins tells me, “does not in any way compare with what the women and men who started this organization were experiencing, because they were still in a legally segregated society.”

“If people believe in this work, they have to support it,” Bivins says. Luckily, the Schomburg relies on very little federal funding. “But we know that’s not the case for every [Black history] organization,” Bivins says. Part of the future of the Schomburg will include “intervening where we can” to help preserve sites across the country.

Rev. Al Sharpton on the June 19, 2025 edition of© TheWrap

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" recognized Juneteenth this year by speaking with legendary American civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton, who advised wisdom and reflection at a time when "history is being challenged" in the United States.

Officially recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865, when American Major General Gordon Granger orchestrated the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas around the end of the Civil War. Recognizing this, Sharpton told "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, "I think that as we are going to celebrate this holiday, we should also take a real measure of where we are."

"The fact of the matter is that those in Texas who were enslaved knew nothing about the Emancipation Proclamation, knew nothing about freedom. Those that were freed on that day of Jan. 1, 1863, [when] Lincoln signed were in the Confederate States, not the Free States," Sharpton explained. "Those slaves in the Free States weren't freed until the 13th Amendment. Even then, people in Texas weren't freed until General Granger came in [on] this day in 1865 and let them know they were free."

"All of this is American history, and certainly history for African Americans," he continued. "History is being challenged to be taught in certain schools under this administration, and some states are trying to eliminate [it]. I don't think that is healthy, not only for those of us [who] are the ones that have ancestors that were enslaved. It's not healthy for the country to show the progress this country made in fighting slavery -- of instituting the Emancipation Proclamation."

Chuck Todd Sounds Off On Trump’s Impact On American Life: ‘Unlike Anything I’ve Seen In My Lifetime’

Story by Charlie Nash

Former NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd declared on Thursday that President Donald Trump would go down in history as the most consequential American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt during a monologue about living in “the age of Trump.”

Reacting on The Chuck ToddCast to the ten-year anniversary of Trump’s golden escalator ride at Trump Tower – which marked the beginning of his 2016 Republican presidential campaign – Todd said, “Let’s just say, it’s been a transformational ten years for the Republican Party, for American politics, for Washington, D.C., for the global world order. It’s not been small.”

He continued:

In fact, there was a moment in my recent Noosphere conversation with Steve Bannon… where he turned to me looking for some affirmation about an issue and he asked, he goes, “Will you concede we are living in the age of Trump?” and I didn’t hesitate because he’s right. I said yes, because we are.

In fact, its been ten years since Donald Trump descended down that escalator and ten years since a reality TV host, real estate promoter entered the political bloodstream, and whatever you want to call the moment – performance art, populist revolt, ego trip – it has turned into something far more enduring. One flukey win in the electoral college could have been chalked up as an accident of history, and in fact if he had only won in ’16 and never come back, that is how he would have been seen, an accident of history, more like Jimmy Carter or somebody like that.

But what’s followed? The staying power of Trump. The man, the movement, and now the comeback. It’s not an accident, it looks like we’re in the middle of a realignment. We’re not talking about a blip, we’re talking about a decade, which means we’re probably gonna be talking about a generation.

Todd remarked, “You might say he’ll just be a chapter in the history books, but I’d argue he’ll be a long chapter. He’s already gonna be a longer chapter than Grover Cleveland, the last guy to serve non-consecutive terms as president. He’ll be longer than most modern presidents because Trump didn’t just change his party, he changed the job, he changed the expectations, and he’s changed the culture, and that’s probably the biggest impact he’s made.”

The former NBC News host concluded, “In fact, Donald Trump’s impact on American politics and society is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. It’s greater than Obama, something I would not have conceded a few years ago. It’s greater than Clinton. It’s greater even than Reagan. You’d probably have to go back to FDR to find an American president who so thoroughly did a couple of things. He redefined the boundaries of the presidency and the shape of the national psyche.”