Only a racist would dare to defend or dismiss slavery, which stripped Africans of human rights and enslaved them as chattel to pick cotton on Southern plantations. They were often whipped and — in the ...

President Donald Trump stated that the Smithsonian Institution focuses too much on 'how bad slavery was,' according to a report in The New York Times. The comment was made as the ...

A White House official helping lead the Trump administration’s sweeping audit of the Smithsonian accused the institution’s Washington museums of putting too much focus on slavery.“The fact that our ...