First Of All with Victor Blackwell

Trump Vows Changes to History and Art at the Smithsonian; Actor Malik Yoba Speaks Out

Published: March 29, 2025

Duration: 41:20

The Trump Administration is fighting to detain and deport Cornell student activist Momodou Taal. Taal’s attorneys, Eric Lee and Chris Godshall-Bennett, have a warning about other foreign students they say are being targeted across the country.


President Trump says he wants to remove "improper ideology" from our nation's top historical and cultural institution, the Smithsonian. Pulitzer-prize winning historian of African American history, David W. Blight, explains why he thinks this is “a political declaration of war.”

 

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