There is a disconnect between what President Donald Trump is saying to honor Black History Month and what much of his government is doing to forget it exists.

Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted of a drug trafficking operation in Memphis, named as 'pardon czar' by President Trump.

After founding the Journal, Woodson decided to go further and start “Negro History Week” in 1926. He timed this for the second week in February, to coincide with the birthdays of both Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, this grew into the Black History Month we now recognize every year.