Trump-era DEI crackdown reshapes MLK Day nationwide

Trump's second-term DEI agenda is reshaping MLK Day observances across federal agencies and national parks—removing MLK exhibits, pausing related events, and shifting free-entry days to the president's birthday. A broad review of park materials flags roughly 80 items linked to Black history and other race-centered topics, while educators report chilling effects as anti-DEI and CRT legislation spreads. Civil-rights advocates, including MLK III, warn this amounts to erasing Black history and constraining what can be taught.