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Trump has dismantled over 60 years worth of civil rights progress over the course of two months, says Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones. While Trump “doesn’t have the ability to overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act or The Voting Rights Act or The Fair Housing Act,” he’s instead upended civil rights enforcement mechanisms. Which she says, “sends the message that if you discriminate, there’s no one in the federal government that’s going to enforce the law.” The administration is “creating a narrative that allows [for] a stripping of Black people’s rights,” says Hannah-Jones.

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