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From NBC News.com: Underground Railroad museum sues Trump administration alleging it canceled grant on the basis of race
Underground Railroad museum sues Trump administration alleging it canceled grant on the basis of race
An Underground Railroad museum in upstate New York alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated its federal grant on the basis of race, pointing to President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle diversity-focused initiatives.
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From AP.com: Trump administration appeals order to restore George Washington slavery exhibit in Philadelphia
https://apnews.com/article/slavery-exhibit-trump-appeal-012fa7e9660367233ece0e73361eea01
Friday deadline set for Trump administration to restore slavery exhibit
The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order to restore a Philadelphia exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. The Justice Department insists the administration alone can decide what stories are told at National Park Service properties. The city and other supporters of the exhibit filed a lawsuit after Park Service workers last month abruptly removed exhibits from the site. U.S. Senior Judge Cynthia Rufe, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, on Wednesday ordered the materials to be restored by Friday. She also compared President Donald Trump's administration to the totalitarian regime in George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984."
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From AP News.com: Philadelphia sues over removal of slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park
Exhibit on slavery removed from Philadelphia's Independence Park
Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. Crews took explanatory panels off brick walls Thursday at the site of the presidential mansion where George and Martha Washington lived with the people they enslaved. The Interior Department cited Trump’s executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history.” The city of Philadelphia has filed a federal lawsuit against Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the acting park service director to stop the exhibit's permanent removal.
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“Trump issued an executive order that took effect this fall (2025) and instructed the DOI to ensure memorials and monuments “do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans’ past or living … and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people”.
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)“The White House has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits documenting American slavery, including a 1863 portrait of an ex-slave, often referred to as either Peter or Gordon, and the thick, variegated whip scars on his ‘scourged back.’ Gordon’s photograph became one of the most widely circulated images of the horrors of U.S. slavery during the abolitionist movement.”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/200506/donald-trump-civil-war-national-park-slavery-photo
Informed Ideas“This represents an enormous increase in federal power and control over the things we learn,” Jonathan Zimmerman, a University of Pennsylvania professor who studies the history of education, told the Post. “Brought to you by the team that says education should be state and local.”
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March 2025, ‘More than brick and mortar:' DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza near the White House
By ASHRAF KHALIL and JACQUELYN MARTIN
Updated 5:57 PM EDT, March 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality and systemic racial iniquities during the summer of 2020.
"On Monday, the 45-year old Bowie, Maryland resident returned to the site of those protests to mourn the end of Black Lives Matter Plaza.
" 'I needed to be here today. I can’t just let this go away,' Thomas said, as jackhammers began tearing into the giant yellow letters in the street. Thomas discretely secured a chunk of pavement and said holding it made her feel conflicted.
" 'To walk away with a piece of that, it means it’s not gone,' she said. 'It’s more than brick and mortar.'
"Crews started work Monday to remove the large yellow '#BlackLivesMatter' painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor #MurielBowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from Republicans in Congress. The work is expected to take about six weeks and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals.
"The painting of those words was an act of government-sponsored defiance during President Donald Trump’s first term. The removal amounts to a public acknowledgement of just how vulnerable the District of Columbia is now that Trump is back in the White House and Republicans control both houses of Congress.
"Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection #BlackLivesMatterPlaza in June 2020. It came after days of chaotic protests at that location following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer; Bowser had clashed with #Trump over her handling of the protests.
"But now Bowser has little power to fend off encroachments on D.C.'s limited autonomy. Bowser said last week on X that, 'The mural inspired millions of people and helped our city through a painful period, but now we can’t afford to be distracted by meaningless congressional interference. The devastating impacts of the federal job cuts must be our number one concern.' "
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DC begins removing 'Black Lives Matter' plaza after pressure from GOP
Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activist Republicans in Congress. The work is expected to take about six weeks and the words will be replaced by an unspecified set of city-sponsored murals. The painting of those words was an act of government-sponsored defiance during President Donald Trump’s first term. Their removal amounts to a public acknowledgement of just how vulnerable D.C. is now that Trump is back in the White House and Republicans control both houses of Congress.