Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’

The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all its complexity.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Knows Why History Feels Dangerous

“We really do believe in our own mythology,” the creator of The 1619 Project says, as she watches the widespread effort to remove uncomfortable narratives about who we are.

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National Parks to Remove Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes

The Trump administration ordered a Civil War-era war image removed from a National Park site in Georgia as it moves to promote what it considers a more positive view of American history.

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Trump vs. Truth: The Fight for America’s History

Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.

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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.

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Trump Once Praised the Black History Museum That He Is Now Attacking

President Trump’s 2017 tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture seems a distant memory.

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Trump’s Slavish Stupidity

The president could learn a lesson from the sisters of Nativity.

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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.

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North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says

A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery.

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Trump’s Cultural Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Art can be effective at illuminating and healing only if it is unconstrained by authority.

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