Before going out in Baltimore on Friday, Rev. Robert Turner, Senior Pastor The temple of Amen Church for empowering Ame, headed for 43 miles from its church to the National Museum of African American History in Washington in Washington, DC
Turner, who flew from Baltimore in DC more than 30 times for calling black people across America due to the consequences of slavery, held a 14-hour trip this week to protest the protest of the attempted trump card to delete an important American history. For him, the future of the museum, which he and many other black people, calls “Blacksonian” is worth every step.
“If you don’t know the horrors we passed through, damn it, then you may not see the need to repair,” Turner said. “It is important that the President Trump knows this issue to rescue Blacksonian and issuing America’s repair, and the creation of the repair culture is very important for saving America’s soul.”
Context: Dozens of old artifacts relating to slavery and civil rights rotated from exhibits in the museum as potential overviews of white houses.
At the end of March, the President Donald Trump signed the executive order which is partly demanding that the museum reduces any exhibits “Share Americans based on race. “But now, the White House says it is not included in any changes in the museum, while Democrats in the congress sound alarm, signing the letters and We present legislation to protect the attractions for civil rights.
NBC News entered inside the museum and found at least 32 artifacts that have been removed once on the screen.
They include Harriet Tubman’s book of filled gospels to believe that she sang as she led the enslaved people to freedom through the underground rail, as well as the cloth of enslaved people and photographs of the public enemy Hip-Hop Group.
It was also removed was the “narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, the memoir of one of the most important leaders in the abolition movement. Both items are gifted at Smithsonian.
In the statement, a spokesman of the White House Lindsey Halligan said: “The White House did not have involvement in the removal of any exposure from the National Museum of African American History and Culture or any other Smithsonian institution. They did themselves.”
The museum pushed back to criticism by speaking that website to “claim that the facilities were removed for reasons that did not comply with standard loan agreements or museum practices.” It is also stated 11 New Artifacts Showing later this monthIncluding the photo focused on how much in a mass prison, which depicts the Klux clan of the figure, and from Chica who entered the Mississippi visits to accuse that the teenager is accused of complaining flirting to me.
In the NBC news email, the museum reiterated that rotating items are normal.
But Turner is not convinced. “We have to say enough now, and America is better than this, black and white,” he said. “We are stronger than this. If our children can endure be lonched, then white kids can withstand the classroom that teaches that America is for children who used.”
Liz Bragalton, the log owner associated with the observation film “12 years slave”, is neither convinced. She is a great granddaughter of a lawyer who helped a free Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and forced into slavery.
“I grew up with the diaries,” Bragelton said. “The most important thing in his diaries was the fact that he helped release this man who was a free man color. And that’s just an amazing story. And in central Louisiani, it’s a pretty prominent story.” I’m very proud of that. “
She gave one of her legal grandfather in the museum in September 2015. to a 10-year loan. Her Museum sent her a letter in March, before the end of his term, saying, “We decided to move in advance with the return of a little early to match our internal rotation schedule.”
The letter was sent for two weeks before Trumpov signed the executive order to target exhibits to Smithsonian, who raised the Red Flag for Brazil.
“When I saw the executive order, I wondered if they might know that something happened and rotated him early because it was slavery, that the entire exhibit” said “
Smithsonian rejected the NBC news request for the interview. But he reiterated in the email that the diary movement was a scheduled rotation for “Enabling the required vacation after an extended display period”.
Bragalton said that it was never said between 2016. and 2025. year that the diary of her family had ever taken off his exhibits or rotated. He believes she had remained at the window until recently.
Rev. Amos C. Brown, a prominent manager of pastors and state rights, provided two of his books in the museum when he opened in 2016. years. Old his father, and that is more than 100 years old and wore Brown during protests with dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as a book on the history of black people who were written in the 1800s.
“I felt that America was going to see me through this museum,” he will see black people, “Brown said. .
Earlier this year, Smithsonian sent him an email that says he will return his books. The Museum called him “Standard practice“Adding that the loan expired in May. Still, Brown invited that an explanation was an excuse, noticing NBC news that the museum was always selected for the restoration of the loan so far.
“I feel that it is very inhuman, disrespectful and completely unfair,” he said about the decision on the break of the loan.
After his public return warranty, the museum offered that the books permanently holds, according to the letter that inspected the NBC News.
The wider controversy becomes all political. Home Democrats are the demanding vice president of JD Vance, who is now sitting on the board of the National Museum of African American history and culture, do not take steps for the overhaul museum. In the letter, the legislators said, “This rough attempt to delete black history is unacceptable and must be stopped.”
The tail. Terri Sewell, Alabama Democrat sitting on a home committee conducting supervision over the Smithsonian institution, was among the legislators who signed the letter. “Excerpt the truth means to share good and bad. And if we don’t say our stories, who will tell our stories?” She said.
Meanwhile, Turner plans to continue to make his / month, pilgrimage with Hours from Baltimore in Washington, DC, to shine brighter reflectors on the exhibitors and requests for blacks over the nation.
“Our story can’t die, no matter who is in the White House,” he said.
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