National Museum of African American History and Culture

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is devoting a yearlong special exhibition to the media mogul’s cultural legacy.
“We’re not going to politicize anything. We’re going to hang out with some kids."
"We recognize the importance of these vernacular, homemade images, this folk cinema, as an alternate history to the kinds of history that the mass media tells.”
It's only the latest in a frightening nationwide trend.
The noose was discovered hanging from a lamp post outside the National Gallery of Art.
Incidents fueled by prejudice and hate, from the Portland attack to LeBron James vandalism, don’t exist in a vacuum.
Black love has become an avalanche: Each time something is thrown at it, it only grows greater.