For more than 200 years, the nine enslaved Africans who lived in the Executive Mansion, located at 190 High (Market) Street in Philadelphia, were erased from history. This lost history was uncovere…| All That Philly Jazz
2 posts published by Faye Anderson during August 2025| All That Philly Jazz
In my recent opinion piece published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I wrote: “The review of content at the President’s House is an Orwellian descent into censorship. It’s interpretive panels and books today. Will it be National Park Service videos and trading cards tomorrow? Two days later, President Trump applied new pressure on Smithsonian interpretive texts … Continue reading President Trump’s ‘Truth’ Echoes 1984→| All That Philly Jazz
In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift wrote: “I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, a…| All That Philly Jazz
4 posts published by Faye Anderson during July 2025| All That Philly Jazz
The President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation, an open-air exhibit, was dedicated on December 15, 2010. The National Park Service site pays tribute to the nine enslaved p…| All That Philly Jazz
In the summer of 1964, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) launched the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. In addition to voter education, COFO organized 41 Freedom Schools where Black children were taught reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as Black history and culture. In the winter of 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order … Continue reading Freedom School for Web Archiving→| All That Philly Jazz
As the descendant of enslaved people, I mourn the Fourth of July. However, Independence Hall has a prominent place in Black history. Independence Hall is the place where the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence; 34 of the 56 signers, including Thomas Jefferson, enslaved Black people. Independence Hall is the place where … Continue reading Independence Hall→| All That Philly Jazz
I want to close out Black Music Month with hometown hero Stanley Clarke. Born in Philadelphia on June 30, 1951, Clarke is a groundbreaking acoustic and electric bassist known for revolutionizing th…| All That Philly Jazz
To celebrate Black Music Month, I will give a gallery talk highlighting some of the items in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s exhibit, “Message In Our Music.” The items span the 1770s to the 1970s. It was illegal for the enslaved to learn how to read or write. Stories and cultural practices were passed down … Continue reading Message In Our Music→| All That Philly Jazz
Jimmy Carter has joined the ancestors at age 100. Former President Carter was a humanitarian, and a tireless champion of democracy and human rights. The late president will be honored with a state …| All That Philly Jazz
4 posts published by Faye Anderson during July 2024| All That Philly Jazz
5 posts published by Faye Anderson during June 2024| All That Philly Jazz