Some legal research that I’ve done shows that Mayor Cherelle Parker and City Council could take a stand in favor or our collective history as opposed to blessing a 250th birthday party.

The Donald Trump Interior Department has amply indicated that it will sanitize, if not eradicate, history when it comes to acknowledging the existence of slavery at Philadelphia’s historic Independence site, much of which is still owned by the City of Philadelphia.

Yet, if the mayor and council would stop resembling “deer in the headlights” when it comes to their general inaction regarding the onslaught of our liberties, they might read and act upon a 1950 “Cooperative Agreement” by and between the U.S. Department of Interior and the City of Philadelphia.

This provides that the parties are to “cooperate

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