Black History : The National Museum of African American History and Culture: Grand Opening

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Smithsonian’s African-American museum gears up for schools


WASHINGTON (AP) _ Whether it’s a class on early African-American history, civil rights movements or black pop culture, there’s an exhibit for that at the Smithsonian’s newest museum.

And schools are penciling in the National Museum of African American History and Culture to give students a real-life look at the past as well as a tangible representation of the places and people in their textbooks ...

https://lasentinel.net/smithsonians-african-american-museum-gears-up-for-schools.html

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A Washington, D.C., sidewalk tour of slavery and segregation

This weekend, Washington is the place to be — to see and be seen — at the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Twenty-five years from now, there will be no African American in the United States who was not in this city on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. Just as 53 years after the event, there are no African Americans who did not participate in the 1963 March on Washington. And, yes, there is no adult African American male alive who was not on hand for the Million Man Marchin 1995 ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin..._term=.82fcd5d04860&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

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Lonnie Bunch: Even if you’re white, ‘the story of slavery is still your story

“This is a story that is too big to be in the hands of one community,” said Lonnie Bunch. “It really is the story that has shaped us all” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog..._term=.c2737b8c3371&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

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Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)

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https://destee.com/threads/‘worst-negro-in-history’-clarence-thomas-catches-hate-after-scotus’-affirmative-action-ruling.80227/ ‘Worst Negro in history’


Petition Launched to Include Clarence Thomas in African American Museum


(CNSNews.com) – The StandUnited website has launched a petition to have Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas included in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. ...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-african

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Petition Launched to Include Clarence Thomas in African American Museum

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The museum says the building’s three-tiered shape evokes a traditional Yoruban crown. The exterior corona is made of 3,600 bronze-colored cast-aluminum panels. The distinctive architecture alternatively symbolizes hands lifted in prayer, in what the museum says is an expression of faith, hope and resilience ...


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...frican-american-history-and-culture.html?_r=0


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POWERFUL OBJECTS The collection includes potent artifacts, including a Ku Klux Klan hood and stereotypical representations of black Americans

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