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Trump ordena que se instalen letreros fuera del Museo Smithsonian para advertir sobre “información inexacta”

El presidente Donald Trump ordenó este viernes al Servicio de Parques Nacionales (NPS, por sus siglas en inglés) la instalación temporal de letreros cerca del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense del Smithsonian, que adviertan sobre lo que el Gobierno considera “información inexacta” presentada en las exhibiciones de la institución.

El decreto exige que el NPS, que controla las aceras fuera de varios museos del Smithsonian a lo largo del National Mall, instale letreros que promuevan un informe de la Casa Blanca que criticó duramente las exhibiciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense.

Indica que los letreros “deberán notificar a los visitantes que las exhibiciones del Museo deben renovarse de manera coherente con las conclusiones” del informe y los dirige a “lugares y recursos para obtener información precisa” sobre la historia del país.

No especifica cuáles deberían ser esos recursos alternativos.

El informe, publicado el 4 de julio por el Consejo de Política Nacional de la Casa Blanca, acusó al Smithsonian de promover ideologías de izquierda radical en el museo y un activismo político extremo que busca transformar el país.

Los críticos han acusado al Gobierno de Trump de intentar utilizar el museo para reescribir la historia presentada en sus exhibiciones para favorecer una visión conservadora del mundo.

“El presidente Trump lucha para devolver a uno de los mayores tesoros cívicos de la nación su misión y propósito fundacionales, y restablecer la verdad en la narrativa histórica del país”, declaró la Casa Blanca en un comunicado sobre la orden.

El decreto de este viernes es el más reciente esfuerzo del Gobierno de Trump por reescribir aspectos de la historia de la nación presentados en algunos de los museos y galerías más prestigiosos del país.

Y se suma a otro decreto de marzo de 2025 en el que la Casa Blanca buscó combatir lo que llamó “revisiones históricas” que presentan la historia del país bajo una luz negativa.

Si bien el Servicio de Parques Nacionales depende del Departamento del Interior, el Smithsonian es una agencia independiente que, en teoría, debería operar fuera del control del poder ejecutivo.

No obstante, el Gobierno controla gran parte de la financiación del sistema de museos y el vicepresidente J. D. Vance forma parte de su junta directiva.

Los líderes del Smithsonian afirmaron que la institución mantendrá su autonomía pese a los repetidos intentos del Gobierno de intervenir en sus exhibiciones y decisiones de personal.

El Smithsonian declinó comentar sobre el decreto de este viernes.

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Congressman Al Green and Alpha Phi Alpha Bring Slavery Remembrance to the U.S. Capitol

Click here for updates on this story    August 12, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Saturday, August 15, 2026, the U.S. Capitol will become more than the nation’s legislative workplace. For a few consequential hours, it will also serve as a classroom of memory, accountability and democratic purpose as Congressman Al Green (TX-09)hosts Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for a Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update and Assembly at the Capitol Visitor’s Center Auditorium.Beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET, the program will advance Green’s continuing effort to establish August 20 as a National Slavery Remembrance Day — ensuring that the brutality of slavery, the resistance of the enslaved and their foundational contributions to America are never pushed to the margins of public memory. This year’s theme, “Harder Yet May Be the Fight,” feels both historical and unmistakably contemporary. Democracy, after all, is strongest when a nation can examine its entire record — not simply the comfortable chapters.And this movement did not begin yesterday.In July 2022, the U.S. House approved Green’s H.Res. 517, the Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution, by a 218–207 vote. In the current 119th Congress, Green introduced H.J.Res. 67, supporting the designation of August as Slavery Remembrance Month and expanding the national conversation about slavery, its continuing effects and those who fought to end it.Saturday’s assembly will also spotlight another consequential proposal: Green’s push to secure a Congressional Gold Medal for enslaved Africans and their descendants.His H.R. 4885, introduced August 5, 2025, seeks to posthumously award a collective Congressional Gold Medal to Africans and their descendants enslaved in America through the abolition of slavery in 1865.The historical contrast is striking. In 1956, Congress awarded Congressional Gold Medals to the four known surviving Civil War veterans, with the authorization explicitly covering veterans who served in either the Union or Confederate forces. Green’s argument raises a powerful question: Should the millions whose uncompensated labor helped build American economic power receive comparable national recognition?Standing alongside Green will be Alpha Phi Alpha General President Brother Lucien J. Metellus, Jr. The partnership itself carries historic weight.photo General President Brother Lucien J. Metellus, Jr. met with Brother Congressman Al Green (D-TX) Founded at Cornell University in 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha became the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American men. Its legacy of civil rights, civic participation and leadership includes Alpha men such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.Metellus has warned against efforts to diminish the sacrifices and contributions of African Americans, saying Alpha Phi Alpha refuses to allow slavery’s evils to be forgotten or its ancestors left without proper honor. Green, himself an Alpha brother, puts the mission plainly: “Remembrance requires more than reflection; it requires us to confront our history.”That makes Saturday’s gathering bigger than a ceremony.It is an exercise in democratic citizenship.A mature democracy does not fear its history. It studies it. It names injustice without surrendering hope. Patriotism is not pretending America has always fulfilled its promises; it is demanding that America continually move closer to them.For Houston, the moment carries particular resonance. A Houston congressman is helping place a national spotlight on the enslaved people whose names too often disappeared while the wealth their labor generated remained.History may be written in books, but remembrance is written in public choices.On August 15, Congressman Al Green and Alpha Phi Alpha will make one choice unmistakably clear: America moves forward best when America remembers.EVENT DETAILS WHO: Congressman Al Green and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and General President Brother Lucien J. Metellus, Jr.
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