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The Real Meaning of Trump's Smithsonian Executive Order - The Atlantic

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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Elizabeth hays, a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the museum and others throughout the Smithsonian system, she made the nearly five-hour drive up to Washington, D.C., to visit. She was worried that if she waited any longer, she might encounter a sanitized version of the museum, or no museum at all. She told me this in front of a display focused on contemporary manifestations of Black protest. Elisa Hill, a Black woman from Maryland, was visiting that day too. “I’m very worried about what’s going to happen here,” Hill told me, shaking her head. “Because it represents the history that we all need to know and understand. I’

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 14:28 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. E lizabeth Hays , a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the museum and others throughout the Smithsonian system, she made the nearly five-hour drive up to Washington, D.C., to visit. She was worried that if she waited any longer, she might encounter a sanitized version of the museum, or no museum at all. S

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