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2026The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) suspended a race-based grant program that prioritized organizations serving specific communities after the Department of Justice initiated a Title VI civil rights review. The DOJ stated that federal law prohibits …
Updated Jul 11, 2026 2026The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit struck down the higher education provisions of Florida's 'Stop W.O.K.E.' Act, a 2022 law that prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender …
Updated Jul 11, 2026 2026On June 30, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted to rescind long-standing affirmative-action interpretive guidelines and related compliance manual provisions under Title VII. The EEOC described the materials as approximately 40 years old, removing key …
Updated Jul 11, 2026 1770On March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks, an ex-slave and Black laborer, was killed by British soldiers during the Boston Massacre. He is widely recognized as the first American to die in the conflict leading to the …
Updated Jul 11, 2026 1775On November 7, 1775, Virginia's royal governor Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation offering freedom to enslaved people and indentured servants owned by rebels if they joined the British army. This triggered a mass exodus of approximately …
Updated Jul 11, 2026 2026The Federal Register published a notice on July 6, 2026, rescinding guidelines on affirmative action appropriate under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII prohibits discrimination against workers based on race, color, …
Updated Jul 6, 2026 2026On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais that dramatically curtailed minority voters' ability to challenge electoral maps under Section 2 of the Voting …
Updated Jul 6, 2026 2026Last week (late June 2026), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Maryland State Police Sgt. William Heath is not entitled to qualified immunity in a racial bias lawsuit brought by two …
Updated Jul 6, 2026 1862On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, following the U.S.-Dakota War. Authorized by President Abraham Lincoln, this event remains the single largest mass execution in U.S. history. Today, the site is …
Updated Jul 5, 2026 1920A white mob lynched three Black men — Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie — after false rape accusations in Duluth, Minnesota. The atrocity galvanized civil rights organizing in the state and is widely taught …
Updated Jul 3, 2026 1921A white mob destroyed Greenwood, Tulsa's prosperous Black district—killing hundreds and leveling homes and businesses. Long minimized in public memory; now widely taught as one of the worst episodes of racial terror in U.S. history.
Updated May 23, 2026 1882Federal law barred most Chinese immigration and denied naturalization to Chinese residents—the first major U.S. law restricting immigration by nationality. Repealed in stages; remains a landmark of race-based immigration policy.
Updated May 23, 2026 1935The federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation produced 'Residential Security' maps grading neighborhoods; 'D' areas were often redlined, excluding Black borrowers and shaping decades of segregated wealth. Documented by the Mapping Inequality project and historians.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026Arizona Republic reported tribal nations protested National Park Service actions targeting Native history exhibits and interpretation at Grand Canyon National Park.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026Philadelphia officials filed suit over the dismantling of slavery-related exhibits at the President's House site, citing a 2006 city–federal agreement; AP News and local outlets covered the dispute and judicial review.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026Big Bend National Park, Texas, was listed among parks where Native-related and climate-related interpretive content faced removal or review under the same federal initiative reported by Arizona Central, Reuters, and others.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026Zion National Park in Utah was among sites named in coverage of removals or reviews of interpretive material on Indigenous displacement and climate, alongside other Southwest parks.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026The Washington Post and Reuters reported national parks were directed to review and remove signage on mistreatment of Native Americans and on climate change, affecting many sites across several states.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025Reuters reported the National Museum of American History removed Donald Trump's name from an exhibit on presidential impeachment, restoring an earlier version of the display.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025NBC News and other outlets reported dozens of objects tied to slavery and civil rights were no longer on public view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, including items linked to Harriet …
Updated May 23, 2026 2025Acadia National Park removed educational signs addressing climate change and Indigenous history, part of broader NPS interpretive changes under federal direction. Covered by Vermont Public and regional outlets.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026National Park Service removed or altered Native American–related signage at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument; tribal leaders and the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council opposed changes to markers at the site. Reported by Military Times and others.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025Officials removed descriptions and educational materials explaining how climate change is contributing to glacial loss at Glacier National Park.
Updated May 23, 2026 2026National Park Service workers used crowbars to remove the only federal historic site exhibit commemorating slavery in America — 'The President's House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation.'
Updated May 23, 2026 2025Trump administration removed and altered references to transgender and queer people at Stonewall National Monument — the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025Trump administration removed 'History Under Construction' exhibit acknowledging Coast Miwok Indigenous history and the racist roots of conservation movements at Muir Woods National Monument.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025President Trump signed Executive Order 14253 directing the Department of the Interior and National Park Service to remove exhibits about slavery, Indigenous genocide, civil rights, and climate science from national parks and federal lands.
Updated May 23, 2026 2025National Park Service removed signs and exhibits referencing the forced displacement of Native Americans from Grand Canyon region when the National Park was created.
Updated May 23, 2026