Brent Leggs Appointed President of National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Brent Leggs, formerly executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, has been unanimously elected as the new president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He becomes the organization's eleventh president since 1949, taking the helm at a challenging time as the Trust battles legal and political interventions from the Trump administration, including a lawsuit filed in December.
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Leggs is also joining the institution at a pivotal moment in its history as it battles relentlessly against various interventions from the Trump administration.
Last December, the National Trust sued the current administration
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