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John,
As Donald Trump spends hundreds of millions to put on a massive celebration for America's 250th birthday, he is also removing Black history from the places Americans go to learn it.
The administration just released a list of exhibits and displays it has stripped from sites across the country. Information about the Civil Rights Movement was removed from the National Mall and the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Mississippi. Exhibits explaining slavery at the President's House in Philadelphia were erased.
It is a deliberate attempt to control whose stories are remembered. But the goal has never been simply to erase the past — it’s to shape the future by weakening Black political power in the present.
Our representatives need to hear that the public is paying attention and that we will not accept a whitewashed version of our nation's story. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley introduced a Resolution to honor Black history museums and cultural institutions and protect them from erasure, whitewashing, and funding cuts. And now it’s up to us to show overwhelming support for the resolution.
Tell Congress to pass the Protect Black History Resolution and stop this campaign to erase Black history.
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Black history is the story of the people who built this country and of the abolitionists, organizers, freedom fighters, educators, artists, workers, and ordinary people who transformed America by demanding it live up to its own ideals.
When politicians erase those stories, they are not simply changing museum exhibits. They are trying to change how future generations understand voting rights, civil rights, segregation, slavery, and the ongoing fight for racial justice.
Rep. Pressley’s resolution would affirm a simple truth: Black history is American history, and the American people deserve access to it.
If enough of us speak out now, we can build the public pressure needed to move the resolution forward and disrupt Trump’s campaign of erasure from becoming the new normal.
Tell Congress that Black history belongs in our classrooms, our museums, our national parks, and our public memory.
Thank you for joining us to take action.
Until Justice Is Real,
Color Of Change
