Repeatedly during his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump appealed to black voters by asking, “What do you have to lose?” A year and a half into the Trump administration, we have enough evidence to answer the question definitively: everything. In nearly every major federal agency, the Trump administration has pursued policies harmful to black people.
Today, on June 19th—Juneteenth—we will take a moment to consider the rights, opportunities, and commitments to racial redress that black people are losing because of the Trump administration.