Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to censor and remove museum exhibits outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington in May 2025. Trump condemned the exhibits as portraying the United States in a \u201cnegative light.\u201d<\/span>Craig Hudson for The Washington Post\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n One of the unmistakable<\/span> throughlines of the second Trump administration is how it\u2019s overhauling policies that directly affect African Americans, most notably by targeting programs and initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.\u00a0<\/p>\n For journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, it\u2019s an attempt to take the country back to an era before the civil rights movement. \u201cA lot of folks are saying, you know, that this administration is rolling back the \u201960s, but I\u2019m like, he\u2014this administration\u2019s actually going back further than that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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