Center for American Progress

06/20/2026

Trump's war on representation for all, in addition to DOGE cuts, is systematically dismantling U.S. public health infrastructure by terminating more than 1,700 NIH research grants and ending programs that serve all Americans.

06/20/2026

06/19/2026

While nearly all Americans are affected by nature loss, the consequences of nature’s destruction and decline are not felt equally across race or income. Recent analysis found that across the U.S., communities of color are 3x more likely than white communities to live in nature-deprived areas.

New analysis reveals persistent environmental inequality in the United States. Communities of color are three times more likely than white communities to live in nature-deprived areas, and three-quarters of residents of these areas have low household incomes.

06/19/2026

Trump's war on representation for all, in addition to DOGE cuts, is systematically dismantling U.S. public health infrastructure by terminating more than 1,700 NIH research grants and ending programs that serve all Americans.

Federal executive orders targeting initiatives that seek to ensure diversity and equity for all are systematically dismantling America’s public health infrastructure—cutting research, surveillance systems, and workforce programs while raising costs and putting national health security at risk.

06/19/2026

As we celebrate Juneteenth today, we must not overlook how the Trump administration's policies are erasing Black history from our public lands and waters.

Through a multipronged strategy to purge DEI initiatives and censor museum exhibits, the administration is diminishing Black Americans' history and the national heritage all Americans are meant to share. https://ampr.gs/4aFBHkf

Public lands tell America’s full and true story, yet new Trump administration policies threaten to erase Black history, undermine access, and distort the national memory.

06/18/2026

Fish Stark of the American Humanist Association explains how religious freedom is more than just about the right to pray, it is foundational to protecting all the civil and human rights that we have in the United States.

06/18/2026

Our new report, in collaboration with the American Humanist Association, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Interfaith Alliance, unites diverse voices in an expression of interfaith solidarity and democratic responsibility and offers an alternative to Trump's Religious Liberty Commission. https://ampr.gs/43CdgRH

06/18/2026

Black history is being erased from public lands and waters—and we have the receipts.

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, and while we celebrate the freedom of Black Americans, we must also reflect on the legacy of racism in the United States and the Trump-Vance administration's ongoing censorship of Black history. Get the receipts: https://ampr.gs/4aFBHkf