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While the site was bare, this Black history tour kept the story of the President’s House alive

This year's Black history month began without a fully formed President's House exhibit since 2009, a year before the site officially opened. Mijuel K. Johnson is a guide for The Black Journey, which offers walking tours focused on African American history in Philadelphia. One of the first stops on “The Original Black History Tour” is the President’s House, an open-air exhibit on Sixth and Market Streets that memorializes none people enslaved by the first president here. Saturday marked Johnson’s first group tour since National Park Service employees — at the direction of President Donald Trump’s administration — last month stripped out every panel at the historical site, censoring roughly 400 years of history.
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