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AXIOS (Delano Massey) - America's 250th anniversary collides with a renewed fight over Black history

America's 250th anniversary is colliding with a renewed battle over Black history, just as the White House moves to both smooth over and narrow how race and equity are discussed nationwide with rollbacks of diversity initiatives. Why it matters: Black History Month — in its 100th year since Carter G. Woodson's 1926 Negro History Week — arrives amid an administration actively shrinking institutions that preserve and teach that history. - The Trump administration has said that diversity initiatives and racial equity efforts have unfairly advantaged Black and Latino Americans at the expense of white Americans . Driving the news: Following presidential custom, Trump issued a National Black History Month proclamation on Feb. 3 that…

America's 250th anniversary is colliding with a renewed battle over Black history, just as the White House moves to both smooth over and narrow how race and equity are discussed nationwide with rollbacks of diversity initiatives. Why it matters: Black History Month — in its 100th year since Carter G. Woodson's 1926 Negro History Week — arrives amid an administration actively shrinking institutions that preserve and teach that history. - The Trump administration has said that diversity initiatives and racial equity efforts have unfairly advantaged Black and Latino Americans at the expense of white Americans . Driving the news: Following presidential custom, Trump issued a National Black History Month proclamation on Feb. 3 that…Open