NYT: ‘The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a powerful declaration: The black story is as central to the country’s narrative as any other.’

This looks fabulous! I can’t wait to visit. How exciting!

By The New York Times:

I, Too, Sing America

The museum confronts head-on America’s history of slavery and racial oppression. Yet, while memorializing suffering, the museum wants even the bleakest artifacts to have a positive message. As visitors face an auction block where slaves stood to be bought and sold, they can also imagine the strength slaves summoned to survive…

Visitors will be able to leave their own thoughts at public video booths. After such powerful displays, they can also sit in a space called the Contemplative Court to come to terms with what they have witnessed.