America enters the Age of the Dominus as Trump’s second term personalizes power, erodes democratic norms, and normalizes racial and political injustice.
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Nashville’s Minority Caucus honors civic leaders and awards scholarships to local HBCUs at Meharry Medical College, advancing equity, education and opportunity.
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Vanderbilt University celebrated the launch of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.’s memoir, Nonviolent: My Life of Resistance, Agitation, and Love, with a community event at Nashville’s historic Woolworth Theatre, connecting his legacy of civil rights nonviolent resistance to the university’s yearlong “250 Conversations on America” initiative.
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The BBC has apologized after a racial slur was accidentally aired during its delayed 2026 BAFTA Film Awards broadcast, when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson shouted the N-word while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting on stage.
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One hundred years after Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week, ASALH marks the Black History Month centennial with a year-long focus on preserving Black history, expanding education, and continuing Woodson’s mission amid renewed debates over how America tells its story.
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President Donald Trump’s State Department pick Jeremy Carl, author of The Unprotected Class, faces fierce Senate and civil rights opposition over remarks on race, Juneteenth, the Civil Rights Act, and immigration as his nomination for Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs hangs in the balance
