‘An attack on democracy itself’: Trump wants museums to shut up about slavery

Princeton’s Eddie Glaude describes Donald Trump’s efforts to remove exhibits on slavery from Smithsonian museums as an “an all-out assault on what made my mom and dad and their grandparents possible.” In addition to this being an attack against the Black community, Harvard University professor Imani Perry says it’s also an attack on “deeply democratic knowledge” and “therefore an attack on democracy itself.”