they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep remembering
mine

—Lucille Clifton, “why some people be mad at me sometimes”

h/t The Christian Century

#historyerasure #tRump and maga must go

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge

Simply sad.

#history #remberanceday #WWW2 #blackhistory #historyerasure

@jessiegender.bsky.social | Jessie Gender: "Why Fascism Attacks Our Collective History" | #VideoEssay #Grief #Death #Stories #RewritesHistory #HistoryErasure #Colonialism #Archives #SystemicOppression #Memory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vU5...

‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump Government data is a vast resource that everyone relies on, whether they know it or not. Experts are worried about the future of this resource.

50. There is a threat to environmental history under the current administration, according to @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/03/were...
#history #records #disappearingrecords #environmentalism #environment #historyerasure (50/?)