Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other Smithsonian Institution sites have expressed a “divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics say Trump is trying to force a distorted national narrative that glosses over slavery and other historical wrongs. Some churches are donating as members of the museum and urging congregants to do the same. The Rev. Robert Turner recently walked from Baltimore to Washington and prayed at the museum entrance. Turner says he laid a wreath “to show solidarity with the museum" and the history it presents every day.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven y…
Chinese giant automaking company BYD bought Ford Motor Co.'s former facilities in Brazil and has promised to run the company’s largest plant outside China in the hardscrabble city of Camacari in northeastern Bahia state. BYD is leading a boom in electric vehicle sales in Brazil, the world’s sixth-largest auto market. Meanwhile, Camacari has been reeling since 2021, when Ford, the American carmaker that had been the city’s largest employer, shuttered its operations in Brazil after more than a century in the country. However, in December, Brazilian authorities rescued 163 Chinese nationals said to be working in “slavery-like” conditions at the BYD site. That has raised questions about the future of the factory.
The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes. An NPS spokeswoman says the changes were made without approval and that the agency celebrates Tubman. Changes included removing Tubman’s picture from the top of the page, editing text to remove references to slavery and changed descriptions about the issue and its brutal realities. The issue comes amid sweeping government changes to comply with President Donald Trump’s campaign against so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the federal government. In some cases, officials have scrambled to remove and then restore online content as changes came to light.
NEW YORK (AP) — Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, th…
A bill that would create a commission to explore the potential impacts of reparations to the descendants of slaves in Maryland has passed the state legislature and now awaits Governor Moore’s consideration.
Senator Eric Buckson (R-South Dover) has sent President Donald Trump a letter requesting a pardon for John Hunn. Hunn, a Delaware abolitionist…
A new exhibit at the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge tells the compelling story of two individuals who played pivotal roles in freeing slaves on Maryland’s Eastern Shore during the 1850s.
The significant find was presented to the museum by a resident of Wicomico County, who found it while magnet fishing in a creek that feeds into the Nanticoke River.
