Court rules panels interpreting slavery can be reinstalled

Critics say signs at site of Washington's home in Philadelphia are a whitewash of history.

- GEOFF MULVIHILL

An appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump's administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President Washington's home in Philadelphia.

The signs would be in the same area where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. A message seeking comment was left Friday with the National Park Service.

The new educational panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation's capital.