- The outdoor exhibit, installed in 2010, acknowledged the contradiction between the nation's founding ideals and the brutal system of slavery, with signs posted at the President's House Site where George Washington enslaved nine people.
- Author and educator Brian Jones states, "We're living in a time...where people are really trying to constrain what we learn," as he discusses the importance of teaching Black history and its relevance to everyone, amid the nation's 250th anniversary and 100 years of Black history commemorations.
- Jones' book, "Black History Is for Everyone," emphasizes the need for an inclusive and unvarnished view of history, citing historians like Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois, to challenge societal myths and build a more durable and equitable democracy, as reconstruction proves to be a more difficult process than abolition.
JUSTICE MATTERS
The Economist and Mother Jones cover different stories, but if we were to compare The Economist's coverage of a related topic, such as the removal of historical signs, to Mother Jones', we would see that The Economist might use more sanitized language, such as "historical signs" instead of "interpretive signs about slavery", and might center the voices of government officials or business leaders, whereas Mother Jones centers the voices of educators and historians, like Brian Jones. The Economist's coverage might also omit facts about the historical context of slavery in the United States, and remove systemic context about the impact of removing these signs on the national narrative, instead focusing on economic or political divisions, as seen in their article about a wealth tax in California, which quotes "The Golden State’s Democrats are divided" and discusses the potential economic impact, obscuring the broader social and historical implications.
Cross-referenced with: The Economist
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