National Museum of African American History

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• SOURCE: Social Justice Journal
  9-24-16
  

  The National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Homecoming

  by Tony Platt

  The museum gets it that the Panthers should not be reduced to men in black jackets with guns.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-23-16
  

  How a Museum Reckons With Black Pain

  by Vann R. Newkirk II

  The Smithsonian’s new memorial of African American history and culture is at once triumphant and crushing.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-23-16
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the new African American history museum proves Jefferson was wrong

  by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  The museum helps resolve the protracted debate about the contributions of black people to American history and, indeed, about whether they had a history worth preserving at all.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-18-16
  

  Washington DC’s monument to black history

  Decades after it was first dreamed of, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, completed by British architect David Adjaye, opens this week. While the building is striking, its collection is more remarkable.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-15-16
  

  Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us

  by Ken Burns

  It is more than a repository of a people’s history. It is an opportunity.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  9-15-16
  

  You May Choke Up at Some of the Items on Display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

  A preview of the more than 3,000 artifacts offers a glimpse of the raw, emotional power of the legacy the museum seeks to honor.

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• SOURCE: Google Blogspot
  9-14-16
  

  Google helped the Smithsonian’s new African American museum tell stories

  With 3D scanning, 360 video, multiple screens and other technologies, visitors can see artifacts like a powder horn or handmade dish from all angles by rotating them with a mobile device.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  4-1-16
  

  African American History Museum Will Mention Sexual Assault Accusations Against Bill Cosby

  The National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in September in Washington, D.C., was met with controversy over the accusations after noting that items belonging to Cosby would be on display.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  2-2-16
  

  Opening Day for the New African American History Museum is Announced

  Thirteen years in the making, the museum says it will open its doors September 24, 2016.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  5-14-13
  

  Slave cabin in SC to be restored

  Curators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture are working with restoration experts to dismantle an antebellum slave cabin on Point of Pines Plantation in Edisto Island, S.C. The cabin was donated to the museum last month by the Edisto Island Historical Society. The two-room cabin, which measures 16 by 20 feet, is believed to be in its original location and will become part of the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition in Washington when the museum opens its doors in 2015.“Slavery is one of the last great unmentionables in public discourse,” said Lonnie Bunch, director of the museum. “The cabin allows us to humanize slavery, to personalize the life of the enslaved, and frame this story as one that has shaped us all. [Slavery] is not just an African American story.”The museum had been searching for a slave cabin to display for its permanent collection. The cabin will be displayed prominently in the museum, visible from three levels. Although the cabin will be reconstructed on-site, visitors will not be able to enter or touch the cabin because of its fragility....