Did Ice Cube Help Trump Create Plan for Black Americans?

Less than three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, social media posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign created a policy proposal to help Black Americans with the help of a once-outspoken critic: American rapper Ice Cube.

Trump supporters framed the alleged connection between the campaign and Cube as evidence of the candidate’s strong collaboration skills and efforts to improve Black Americans’ lives despite the country’s growing culture war over race.

Meanwhile, former and current fans of the former N.W.A. member believed he had broken his 2016 pledge to “never...