{"id":119728,"date":"2026-02-21T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119728\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:44:13","slug":"park-service-workers-reinstall-exhibit-on-slavery-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119728\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Service Workers Reinstall Exhibit on Slavery in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Park Service Workers Reinstall Exhibit on Slavery in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Park Service Workers Reinstall Exhibit on Slavery in PhiladelphiaPlaques on the history of slavery in Philadelphia were reinstalled at the President\u2019s House site after being taken down last month following a Trump administration directive. In a lawsuit by the City of Philadelphia, a federal judge ruled that the exhibit must be temporarily put back up while the case proceeds in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWhen The exhibit was taken down, it was very devastating for the city. It was very devastating to me personally. I value the visibility of Black history, which is American history. So I\u2019m really happy that it\u2019s restored.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s important that we acknowledge the history of America, all of our history, whether that\u2019s easy or the difficult history that is tackled here and acknowledged here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20vid-presidents-house-cvwk-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Plaques on the history of slavery in Philadelphia were reinstalled at the President\u2019s House site after being taken down last month following a Trump administration directive. In a lawsuit by the City of Philadelphia, a federal judge ruled that the exhibit must be temporarily put back up while the case proceeds in court.<\/p>\n<p>By Christina Kelso<\/p>\n<p>February 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Park Service Workers Reinstall Exhibit on Slavery in Philadelphia transcript Back transcript Park Service Workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56719,46798,1958,69,71,70,34251],"class_list":{"0":"post-119728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-federal-courts","9":"tag-national-parks-and-national-monuments","10":"tag-parks","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-slavery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119728","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=119728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}