{"id":118463,"date":"2026-02-19T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:20:09","slug":"philadelphia-slavery-exhibit-panels-restored-as-court-fight-plays-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118463\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia slavery exhibit: Panels restored as court fight plays out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    From Philly to Stonewall: Witnessing history, witnessing \u2018democratic behavior\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The legal back-and-forth over the President\u2019s House followed President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order, \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u201d which aimed to reshape how history is presented at U.S. parks, museums and landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Raymond, who studies government at Johns Hopkins University at the Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., was visiting Philadelphia on Thursday alongside her 9-year-old daughter, who is studying the American Revolution in school.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the present moment in American history, Raymond said, \u201cI think, unfortunately, what we are right now is an authoritarian system masquerading as a responsive democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choking up, Raymond said, \u201cWe are here today to witness. This is democratic behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-732114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/presidents-house-panels-restoration-n-kariuki-2026-02-19-11-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Raymond and her daughter posing for a photo at Independence Mall\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\"  \/>Christina Raymond was visiting Philly with her daughter and says that the pushback to the Trump administration gives her hope. (Nick Kariuki\/WHYY)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, LGBTQ+ rights advocates and historic preservationists similarly sued the Park Service for removing a <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-presidents-house-slavery-exhibit-trump-erasing-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond said the collective pushback, from Stonewall to Philadelphia, gives her hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the American people fighting back and saying we will not accept this,\u201d she said. \u201cWill not allow history to be rewritten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WHYY News\u2019 Eric Nixon contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly to Stonewall: Witnessing history, witnessing \u2018democratic behavior\u2019 The legal back-and-forth over the President\u2019s House followed President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,53031,34251,724],"class_list":{"0":"post-118463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-presidents-house","12":"tag-slavery","13":"tag-trump-impact"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}