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Morning Roundup: After Apologizing, National Archives Replaces Censored Women’s March Photo With The Original
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• After apologizing for doctoring a photo of the 2017 Women’s March, the National Archives is replacing the photo with the original version. [Post]
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National Archives replaces altered Women’s March photo with original version

By Joe Heim
Jan. 23, 2020 at 3:25 p.m. EST

Four days after apologizing for altering a photo of the 2017 Women’s March, the National Archives replaced it with an unaltered copy of the original, according to an announcement on the agency’s website Wednesday.

The photograph, which had been on display since May, showed protesters on Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump’s inauguration. Many carried signs, but messages on some of the placards had been blurred out by Archive managers and staff, including messages critical of Trump and others that mentioned female anatomy.

The Archives told The Washington Post last Friday that it had blurred out Trump’s name “so as not to engage in current political controversy” and that it redacted references to women’s anatomy because the museum hosts students and young people and the words could be perceived as inappropriate.
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Joe Heim
Joe Heim joined The Washington Post in 1999. He is a staff writer for the Metro section. He also writes Just Asking, a weekly Q&A column in the Sunday magazine. Follow https://twitter.com/JoeHeim