Friday briefing: The US at 250: who gets to tell the story?

As America prepares to mark its two hundred fiftieth anniversary, official celebrations are painting a particular picture of the nation's history — one centered on a narrow cast of traditional American heroes. But according to the Guardian, that official narrative is leaving out vast swaths of American experience. Across the country, communities are taking matters into their own hands, reclaiming histories and perspectives that official commemorations ignore — stories from Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants, and others whose contributions have been sidelined or erased. The tension highlights a fundamental question as the nation celebrates: whose history gets told, and whose gets left out?

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