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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The United States Military Academy, in West Point, N.Y.
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Trump Once Praised the Black History Museum That He Is Now Attacking

President Trump’s 2017 tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture seems a distant memory.

© Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

A demonstration in front of the National African American Museum of History and Culture in May. President Trump’s tone with regard to the museum was markedly different in 2017.
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