There are no shortage of horrific & fascistic elements to the attacks on education from the De Santis administration & around the country. But when it comes to Black history, there's also a stunning irony: we still collectively teach, learn, & know so frustratingly little of it.
A telling example is Boston's Black Heritage Trail, which begins at the same spot as the Freedom Trail, winds past a number of amazing historic sites & spaces in Beacon Hill, & features a great museum (@MAAHMuseum) yet receives far fewer annual visitors than the Freedom Trail.
So for my #BlackHistoryMonth @SatEvePost Considering History column, on all that we have to learn from the Black Heritage Trail--& all the Black history we still desperately, collectively need. #twitterstorians
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PS. Seriously--one house along that trail was home, at different times, to both David Walker & Maria Stewart! Doesn't get much more inspiringly historical than that! @NationalParkFdn
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I'm really proud of my new #blackhistorymonth2023 @SatEvePost Considering History column--& I really love the Boston Black Heritage Trail--so I'm sharing it once more for the morning crowd. Let's resist the anti-education garbage & remember together, all.
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