Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Restoring Black History - The New York Times

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Restoring Black History - The New York Times:



 "With the ringing of a bell and a speech from President Obama, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington is to officially open its extraordinary collection to the public on Saturday. But the museum can claim another, equally important achievement: helping 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. Those questions were at the heart of the nation’s original debate about whether, and how, black lives matter."



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