AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - From KKK halls to slave auction sites, communities rethink historic sites
A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation . Why it matters: Years after the backlash against Confederate monuments, new fights have emerged over what to do with remaining physical reminders of particularly hurtful racism — tear them down, preserve them, reinterpret them or return them to communities harmed by them. Zoom in: In Fort Worth, Texas, advocates are turning the former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium into an arts and community center named after a Black lynching victim. - The building once stood as a threat to Black Americans, Latinos and Catholic and Jewish immigrants. -…
AMERICANTHINKER - George, Michael, Trayvon (and Emmett, too)
It’s all just been one long contrivance by the media over the past 70 years to deceive.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Exhibit memorializes Emmett Till's story, mother's call to 'let the world see' | Black History Month
The story of Emmett Till may be 70 years old, but it still carries the reminder of what Black people endured in the Jim Crow South. "It's obviously a tough story, and a lot of us know it already, but some of us don't know all the details," Minnetrista Museum & Gardens CEO Brian Statz says. An exhibit in Muncie, Indiana, tells the story of how the 14-year-old was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by white supremacists and his mother's demand for the world to see what had been done to her child, whose death became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. More: https://tinyurl.com/2p9vd3sf #EmmettTill #BlackHistoryMonth #MamieTillMobley
AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - As Trump-era cuts hollow out preservation, Black philanthropists step in to save history
Private nonprofits and Black philanthropists are stepping in to save endangered Black history touchstones as the Trump administration orders agencies to scrub or rewrite "equity-related" public history. Why it matters: Private Black funding is becoming the last line of defense for many sites central to the country's democratic and civil rights memory, as the federal government retreats from preservation. - "It's my hope that we don't stay in this weird and tragic period," Deborah D. Douglas, author of "U.S. Civil Rights Trail : A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Movement," tells Axios. - "So I'm glad that private individuals are in on the action while we figure out how to react and strategize to the…
AI:Private nonprofits and Black philanthropists are moving to preserve historic sites as the Trump administration rolls back federal diversity programming and orders agencies to scrub "equity-related" public history. As the National Park Service retreats from preserving new landmarks and dismantles certain exhibits, private funding is stepping in to rescue endangered locations, including the site where Emmett Till was killed and several iconic Black churches across the country. This shift toward community ownership and private stewardship comes as the federal government targets DEI initiatives and works to remove what it classifies as anti-American ideology from public history displays.Open