What’s Behind the Push to Erase Black History
The power to manipulate public memory shapes who gets to claim America’s past, present, and future
On a cold, overcast January afternoon, men from the National Park Service un-made a monument to Black history — American history — at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. One used a crowbar to pry an interpretive panel from its place on the brick façade of the President’s House site, where George Washington once lived, leaving behind a…