Image: Civil rights icon Pauli Murray, who was scrubbed from the National Park Service website under Trump.
This page is part of a resource collection on Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration.
See also: Trump & White Supremacy: His Early Life Through His First Administration.
News: 2026
January 2. Jonathan Feingold & Victor Ray: Promoting a New Segregation: The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
January 11. Erica L Green: Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated.’
January 12. Alexander Willis: Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: ‘White people very badly treated.’
January 22. Jake Spring: Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia.
February 3. Erica L Green: ‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo.
February 5. Jason Stanley: State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism.
February 6. Hana Kiros: The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like: The White House took 12 hours to remove a video depicting the former president and his wife as apes.
February 6. The Guardian: Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media: Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes.
February 25. Clint Smith: The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month: We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.
February 26. Caleb Bedillion: Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout.
March 1. Erica L Green: Trump Says He Is the ‘Least Racist’ President. But His Term Echoes a Grim Past. Woodrow Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump, particularly when it comes to race.
News: 2025
January 22. Dareh Gregorian: Trump revokes executive order banning discrimination in federal contracting.
February 19. Erica L Green: Civil Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration Over D.E.I. Orders. The organizations claimed that the president had exceeded his authority in issuing the orders, and that they intentionally discriminated against Black and transgender people.
February 21. The Guardian: Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity.
March 6. Sarah Edwards: Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On Durham’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History.
March 7. The New York Times: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration.
March 13. Michael C. Bender & Rachel Nostrant: Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division.
March 20. Quintessa Williams: Trump Begins Axing the Dept. of Education: The president’s move advances a key campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s pushed equality for Black students — and has been in conservatives’ crosshairs since its creation.
March 21. Erica L Green: Trump Administration Dropped Policy Prohibiting Contractors From Having Segregated Facilities: The provision had been in place since the civil rights era.
March 29. AP News: Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history.
April 6: Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad.
April 24. Brandon Tensley: The End of DEI: What Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Black Americans.
May 7. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History.
May 16. The New York Times: The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans.
May 25. Erica L Green: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men.
June 20. PBS News: Carla Hayden on her time as a pioneering librarian of Congress and getting fired by Trump.
June 20. Erica L Green: The Efforts to Erase Black History.
June 20. Erica L Green: How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past.
June 27. Nikole Hannah-Jones: How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months.
August 4. Janice Gassam Asare: No Friends In The Pipeline: Why 300,000 Black Women Were Pushed Out Of The Workforce.
August 18. William Roberts & Mariam Rashid: Trump’s Agenda Is a Direct Threat to the Black Middle Class.
August 19. Zolan Kanno-Youngs: Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’
August 30. David Smith: ‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials. President’s targeting of Fed governor Lisa Cook highlights his efforts to remove diverse voices from government.
August 30. Erica L Green: Why Black Women Are Seeing Job Losses: Black women have been among the groups most affected by President Trump’s federal work force cuts this year.
September 15. Jake Spring & Hannah Natanson: National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars.
September 16. Victoria Hansen: Books about slavery could be removed from NPS museums, gift shops.
October 1. Erica L Green: Vance Laughs Off Fake Video of Hakeem Jeffries: ‘I Think It’s Funny.’
October 8. Elisabeth Bumiller & Erica L Green: Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration: Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.
October 12. Lydia DePillis: Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.
November 4. Bernadette Reyes & Sonni Waknin: With voting rights under attack, racial gerrymandering reappears.
November 7. Word in Black: We Are the Resistance: Black America and the Fight for the Future.
December 8. The Associated Press: US park service to offer free entry on Trump’s birthday but revokes it for MLK Day and Juneteenth.
December 19. ProPublica: Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump.