{"id":198867,"date":"2025-09-04T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:33:18","slug":"coalition-opposes-slavery-memorials-removal-at-independence-mall-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198867\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition opposes slavery memorial\u2019s removal at Independence Mall \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concerned citizens in the Philadelphia<\/a> area met on Wednesday night to discuss an action plan if the Trump administration<\/a> were to remove a memorial for slavery at the President’s House Site at Independence Mall. <\/p>\n

The packed town hall, which was held at the Zion Baptist Church in North Philadelphia, was in response to President Donald Trump<\/a> signing an executive order that put the memorial at 6th and Market Street up for review. <\/p>\n

The memorial honors the nine enslaved people brought by President George Washington when he moved to Philadelphia to serve as America’s first president in the late 1700s. <\/p>\n

“In this day and age, where we are celebrating as much diverse history as possible it seems quite ignorant to take that stand because that is history,” said Rosalyn McPherson, a member of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, the group that organized the town hall. <\/p>\n

Michael Coard, another member of the coalition, told NBC10 that it is patriotic to know the full history of the country. <\/p>\n

“In order to be a patriotic American, you have to know America. The good, the bad and the ugly. And that is part of the ugly,” Coard said. <\/p>\n

“That host story needed to be told, and we are here tonight to resist the president act to censor and white wash American history,” Coard added. <\/p>\n

McPherson said keeping the memorial is crucial, especially with many visitors traveling to Philly in 2026 for the World Cup, as well as the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. <\/p>\n

“What is going to take place in 2026, and, Visit Philly does not want this removed,” she said. “That is a part of the American 250th story.”<\/p>\n

The coalition says they are prepared to take political and legal action to preserve the memorial if it is removed.<\/p>\n

NBC10 reached out to the National Park Service, which oversees the site, but did not get a response. <\/p>\n

The deadline for a decision on the memorial’s removal is Sept. 17, 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerned citizens in the Philadelphia area met on Wednesday night to discuss an action plan if the Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,4352,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-198867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-trump-administration","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115144635444158881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}