Trump White House marks Black History Month while Defense Department declares 'identity months dead'

Donald Trump has shown in his first 15 days as president of the United States that he has no time to lose. On January 20th, after taking office, he revoked 90 executive orders and measures taken by his predecessor, Joe Biden, as recorded in the Federal Archives registry. And, since then, he has signed dozens of decrees that have ended many of the initiatives carried out by the Democrat in the last four years. Among them are policies in the areas…

It's starting: Black History Month, Women's History Month, Pride Month, and more have all been paused as Trump 'floods the zone' so you don't notice

For someone who, since his first presidential campaign, ran on exuberant promises to “drain the swamp,” Donald Trump has become all too keen on muddying the waters after opening the floodgates himself. Why? Because it’s an effective tactic that, so far, has served him well. The ancient Greeks established rhetoric as an art, defining multiple concepts and methods related to rhetorical practices. One of them, logorrhea (λογορροία), sought to overw…

Black History Month: Trump Uses Lowercase ‘B’ To ‘Honor’ Black Americans In Presidential Proclaimation

Trump's Black History Month proclamation referred to "black Americans" by using a lowercase B in a style that experts say is disrespectful.

Trump could undo everything the UK learnt from Black Lives Matter

The end of diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) is nigh. But did it ever really take off to begin with? If you ask its fiercest opponents, the answer to that question would be a resounding “yes”.In the eyes of the likes of President Donald Trump right down to the average conspiratorial right-wing dupe, DEI is to blame for everything from the tragic deaths of 67 people in the Washington air collision this week, to the failure of commercial ban…

History has taught us the danger of hateful, prejudicial labeling

What is the opposite of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)? Purity (racial and sexual), inequity, and exclusion? That could be the mantra for the KKK, a well-known -- shall we say, “white” -- organization that DEI in part was conceived of to counter.What came before DEI, how far back do we want to go? The Tulsa massacre, lynchings, church and school bombings, redlining, separate but equal. What about the “Dred Scott v. Sandford” Supreme Court…

Black History Month in Trump's anti-DEI 2nd term: 'Watch us show out and show up'

February marks the beginning of Black History Month, and it comes as The White House is dismantling Diversity Equity, and Inclusion efforts within the federal government.