A Journey to the 'Blacksonian' | Episode 5

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News, News Commentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week our entire episode comes to you from inside the Smithsonian’s brand-new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. We talked to children. We talked to curators. We sat together in the Oprah Winfrey Theater and it felt like church, and together we tried to understand the first museum that has tried to understand us.

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0:00.0	I'm Samari. Welcome to Still Processing from the National Museum.
0:06.2	The National Museum of African American History Culture.
0:12.0	A.K.A. The Black Smithsonian. A.K.A. The Black Sonyan. A.K.A.
0:16.0	The Blacksmith, baby.
0:17.3	Yeah!
0:19.3	You're lucky.
0:20.3	We are right.
0:21.3	I say wrong.
0:22.3	You say wrong.
0:23.3	You say wrong.
0:26.3	So here's how this show is going to work this week.
0:28.3	You and I have come to this beautiful museum.
0:31.3	The National Museum of African American History and Culture.
0:35.3	And we're going to tell everybody what the experience is like.
0:38.3	We are also going to explain right now why we're speaking so hushedly.
0:43.3	We're basically in church.
0:45.3	When the Queen Muvvah's Church, A.K.A. The Oprah Winfrey Theater in the bottom of the museum, it's gorgeous.
0:51.3	It's really beautiful.
0:53.3	It is one of the most beautiful theaters I've ever been in my entire life.
0:56.3	And I'm not just saying that because it's her theater, I don't want to watch anything in here, but the theater itself.
1:02.3	Oh, I love that. It's so true too.
1:04.3	So we're going to talk to one of the curators of this museum.
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