The new National African American History and Culture Museum, part of the Smithsonian was recently opened by President Obama. It’s existence is the result of a struggle over many years by legislators in the name of African American history.
Citing Ferguson, Missouri, and Charlotte, North Carolina, and other cities where black men have been shot and killed by police, Obama said that the story the museum tells is “central to our American story” and “perhaps needs to be told now more than ever.”
“We should not be surprised that not all the healing is done. We shouldn’t despair that it’s not all solved, and knowing the larger story should remind us just how remarkable the changes that have taken place truly are.”
The three-story, $540m building houses artifacts from the slavery era and the Middle Passage, the civil war, Jim Crow segregation, integration and the advent of Obama as the first black president. More…
