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Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump
Feb 9, 2026

Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump

Last year, shortly after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on January 31 to mark the start of Black History Month the next day—just as presidents before him had done, beginning with Gerald Ford in the bicentennial year of 1976. He invoked “heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice […]