{"id":118634,"date":"2026-02-20T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118634\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:33:10","slug":"dozens-celebrate-restoration-of-slavery-exhibit-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118634\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens celebrate restoration of slavery exhibit in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Pierce, a George Washington impersonator, said the Trump administration was trying to censor the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every authoritarian dictatorship, they always go after the information first,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cThe information that doesn\u2019t fit with their clean narrative. And we said, \u2018Oh, hell no,\u2019 and we stopped them. And we\u2019re going to keep on stopping them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Nina Ahmad further criticized the Trump administration\u2019s move to remove the exhibit, but thanked those who worked to restore it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are watching this man dismantle everything we hold dear,\u201d Ahmad said. \u201cHe\u2019s dismantling democracy, but people know around the world that local people are standing up in these places, so it is very important we show up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Pierce, a George Washington impersonator, said the Trump administration was trying to censor the past. \u201cIn every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6551,69,71,70,53031,34251],"class_list":{"0":"post-118634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-independence-mall","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-presidents-house","13":"tag-slavery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118634","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=118634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}