October is National Arts and Humanities Month. All That Philly Jazz Founding Director Faye Anderson will lead a walking tour of the people, places and events in Moses Williams’ Philadelphia. T…| All That Philly Jazz
Harriet Tubman began her journey to freedom on Monday, September 17, 1849. On Monday, September 15, 2025, the Washington Post reported on President Trump’s plan to whitewash the everyday brutality of slavery, including removing the photograph of self-emancipated Gordon (or Peter), who joined the Union army, from a National Park Service site. The photograph of … Continue reading Whitewashing American History→| All That Philly Jazz
September is International Underground Railroad Month, a celebration of the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad. Events highlight stories of the self-emancipators who used a covert netwo…| All That Philly Jazz
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
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
