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Trump hosts Black History Month event amid DEI crackdown
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February 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelTrump marked Black History Month at the White House on Feb. 12 with golf star Tiger Woods and prominent Black republicans, amid his push to end DEI.
He announced the names of several notable African Americans he plans to feature in the “National Garden of American Heroes,” a proposed sculpture garden where he says “the legends of America’s past will be remembered.” The statues will be of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass; civil rights icons Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King; singers Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin; intellectual leader and Tuskegee University founder Booker T. Washington; and sports figures Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Kobe Bryant.
He also announced Alice Marie Johnson, a Black woman whom he pardoned in 2020, would be his “pardon czar,” saying he would listen to Johnson’s recommendations on pardons. Read moreSubscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube
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