Trump’s Order Strips Slavery Exhibits, Removes Black History

This post was originally published on The Washington Informer

(WIB) – The Trump administration has intensified its campaign to rewrite how America tells its history, ordering federal agencies to remove exhibits and materials that emphasize slavery and racial injustice by Sept. 17.

Issued by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the directive has set off a wave of protests, most prominently in Philadelphia, and follows a recently published White House article slamming the Smithsonian Institution’s recounts of slavery, racism, and social justice in America, while painting the institution as “anti-American propaganda.”

“These steps are veiled attempts to rewrite and distort the narrative by removing any mention of the racist actions, words, and deeds that have shaped American history,” Karsonya