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Black America Web
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Black America Web
Emmett Till National Monument Could Lose Designation Due To DOJ Opinion
Source: Scott Olson / Getty Last week, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion reversing nearly 100 years of legal precedent by allowing the president to revoke national monument designations if he feels the protection isn't warranted. There's growing concern among activists and former national parks officials that this ruling, along with proposed budget cuts and an executive order targeting 'improper ideology' in national parks and museums, could result in the closure of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument along with several other monuments dedicated to the civil rights movement. According to CBS News, the opinion comes as the Trump administration also seeks to cut nearly $1 billion in funding for the national parks and monuments. The opinion reverses a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked. As a result of the ruling and proposed budget cuts, there's concern that the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monuments could be at risk of closure should the monument designation be revoked or its funding be cut. The Emmett Till monument is still fairly recent, having only been given the national monument designation in 2023 during the Biden administration. The designation came after a years-long fight by Alan Spears, senior director of cultural resources and government affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association, and several other community leaders. 'His badly decomposed body was taken from the water, and officials in this area wanted to have him buried immediately to sort of get rid of the evidence,' Spears explained to CBS. 'His mother insisted that he'd be sent back to Chicago, where they had an open casket funeral. And images of Till's badly decomposed body in that open casket really sparked the modern civil rights movement.' The monument consists of three sites: Graball Landing in Mississippi where Emmett's body was found; Sumner, Mississippi, where Till's confessed killers were tried and found not guilty in the local courthouse; and Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Illinois, where Till's open casket funeral was held. Spears told CBS News the monument was necessary to 'make sure it doesn't happen to anybody else's son ever again.' Source: Scott Olson / Getty This new ruling allows Trump to close and remove any monument that he feels doesn't present America in the best light. Given the Trump administration's tendency to use diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a catchall term to assault anything that celebrates Black people, concerns around national monuments dedicated to Black history are more than warranted. It doesn't help that White House spokesperson Anne Kelly basically confirmed that this was the plan in a statement sent to CBS News. 'Under President Trump's leadership, Secretary [Doug] Burgum is keeping our parks ready for peak season, ensuring they are in pristine condition for visitors, and restoring truth and sanity to depictions of American history in line with the President's Executive Order,' Kelly wrote. 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,' the executive order Kelly made reference to, demands the removal of 'improper ideology' from national museums. It also ordered a review to 'determine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior's jurisdiction have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.' Given that the designation for the Emmett Till National Monument was given in 2023, it would be included in that review. Source: Scott Olson / Getty The order has already spurred concerns about the removal of several exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. 'We are seeing this effort to erase and reverse history and historic preservation,' Spears told CBS News. 'This is turning quickly into a dream deferred.' Former National Park Service Director Chuck Sams was involved in the designation of five national monuments under the Biden administration, including the Emmett Till monument. He strongly disagrees with the Trump administration's approach and believes that the potential closure of the Till monument would be 'very sad and egregious.' 'People don't like to look at their past when it shows a negative light of who we are, and I can understand that nobody likes to look at their own personal past that may have a negative light, but we also know that in order to learn from our own history, we also have to learn from our past mistakes,' Sams told CBS News. In addition to the Till monuments, quite a few of our national monuments are designed specifically to spotlight the sins of America's past. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was made into a national monument in 2024 and is used to teach about America's questionable methods of assimilating Native Americans. In that same year, President Biden also designated the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot, where a group of white people burned down apartment homes in a predominantly Black neighborhood, as a national monument. Work is still in progress on the monument, and with the proposed budget cuts and executive order, it's unclear if that work will be finished. SEE ALSO: Jackie Robinson's Army History Erased In Trump's DEI Purge Poll Shows Companies Maintaing DEI Intiatives Have Better Reputations SEE ALSO Emmett Till National Monument Could Lose Designation Due To DOJ Opinion was originally published on
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Downtown businesses working to make up profits lost during NATO assembly
Downtown businesses are working to make up for profits lost during the NATO assembly. Businesses across the Downtown Dayton region are feeling the impact. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Just a week ago, delegates from 30 countries came and took over the downtown area. Businesses across the area were prepared for an influx of customers, but many experienced the opposite. TRENDING STORIES: Local spa accused of operating as brothel; 2 arrested 'I lost everything;' Home torn apart in SWAT standoff Hope remains to save historic Catholic church engulfed in flames, Archdiocese says Spaghetti Warehouse said it was slow, but as a way to make up for what they missed, they are running sales. Mamie, who is a manager at the restaurant, said they hope the specials will help bring in more customers. 'I think a lot of the businesses are trying to do that. We'd like to as well, so we're hoping for a good weekend,' she said. Many of the businesses said they will continue to do sales and hope for the best as we approach summer. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mamie Gummer files for divorce
Mamie Gummer has filed for divorce from her husband Mehar Sethi after six years of marriage. According to 'The Good Wife' star - the eldest daughter of movie legend Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer - filed court papers on Thursday (06.02.25) to dissolve her marriage to screenwriter, who is the father of her two children Peter, five, and Mary, three. The website reports the paperwork lists the date of the couple's separation as May 6, 2023 and the reason for the split is stated as "irreconcilable differences". Mamie, 41, is said to have asked for joint legal and physical custody of the kids as well as spousal support. It's the actress' second failed marriage after previously tying the knot with actor Benjamin Walker in 2011. They split in 2013. She went on to walk down the aisle with Sethi in early 2019 just months before the couple welcomed their son. News of Mamie's divorce comes after her parents Meryl and Don confirmed their split in September 2023 and revealed they had been separated for six years. In a statement to Us Weekly, the former couple's representative explained: 'Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart." Mamie's younger sister Grace, 38, also divorced her first husband, musician Tay Strathairn, in 2020 and she's now married to record producer Mark Ronson. Meryl and Don are also parents to son Henry, 45, and daughter Louisa Jacobson, who recently came out publicly as gay after spending years "hiding". She told New York Post column PageSix: "I was hiding for so long, part of myself that I knew was always there ... "I think the more we see people like us, who we can relate to, who are following onto this path and stepping into their truth unapologetically, will inspire others that they can do the same, that their truths are OK and not to be ashamed of ... "I think we're entering a moment right now where there is a vanguard of women and non-binary people who are redefining what it means to be a woman. It's an exciting time, and I'm really grateful."
