Erasing History: Trump's Crusade Against the Truth The latest salvo in Donald Trump's war on truth is being waged in Philadelphia, where a battle over the President's House enslavement memorial has reached new heights of absurdity.
At its core, this dispute is about the right to tell an unvarnished truth about America's founding – one that acknowledges the brutality and injustice inflicted upon enslaved Africans who lived and died on those grounds.
For decades, activists like Michael Coard, founder of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (Atac), have fought to bring attention to the stories of those enslaved individuals.