Shortly after taking office, in February 2025, President Donald Trump abruptly fired General Charles "CQ" Brown, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as part of a purge of military leaders who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. In March, Arlington National Cemetery scrubbed from its website educational materials about the history of Black service members, including the Tuskegee Airmen and even General Colin Powell, the first Black Joint Chiefs chairman. …
With these and other petty moves executed by Pete Hegseth, Trump's loyalist secretary of "war," the White House and Pentagon appear strangely determined to undermine, and even erase the evidence of, Black patriotism—not to mention the military's hard-won reputation as an institution that embraces the talents and capabilities of all Americans…
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