Black history matters to everyone – it’s a crucial part of our nations’ story | Lonnie Bunch

The struggles of the past teach us all about the present. Ninety years after Black History Month launched, this remains true

• Lonnie Bunch is founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

One can tell a great deal about a people, about a nation, by what it deems important enough to remember: what graces the walls of its galleries? What elements of a country’s identity are featured in its national museums? What images appear on its currency and what holidays are celebrated?

I would suggest, however, that one learns even more by examining what a nation chooses to forget.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2JqskYR