Hannah Rosen

But this is completely top down.

After the break, is it time to start practicing Black History Month differently?

So given everything you both have said, which is we're in this unusual position where the federal government is the major actor in, what do we want to call it, distorting, whitewashing history?

Both.

Pritifying history?

Any of those?

It's Black History Month, which is this month, in this year, in this moment.

Is there an argument for thinking of or practicing Black History Month differently?

Happy Fat Tuesday.

And why is it important to remember history and its difficulty?

Like, you know, even within families, people keep secrets for decades and decades and they don't like to talk about the bad things that happen.

It's a common human impulse.

So why is it important to remember something like what your mother went through?

Why?

Adam, this week, there was a pushback against this trend we're describing from a federal judge who ruled about the panels at what's known as the president's house in Philadelphia that were taken down.

It was quite a strong ruling.

She quoted Orwell.

She said an agency cannot arbitrarily decide what is true.

How significant is that ruling?

Like, have you seen other kinds of pushback like that?