Curating Black history

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

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Summary

As museums open up, we wanted to talk to the new director of the National African American Museum of History and Culture about what it means to interact directly with history. Plus, why air travel feels worse than ever.

Archivist and poet Kevin Young became the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. this year. As museums open back up, he’s reflecting on the role he and the museum play in reassessing our national history and preserving Black culture.

With more people traveling again, many flights are being delayed or canceled. Natalie Compton reports on why these disruptions are happening and what you can do to avoid them.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Ben Tara from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:11.0	This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:12.0	Hi there.
0:13.0	How are you?
0:14.0	It's Lisa bonus comic for the post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:20.0	It's Friday, July 9.
0:25.0	Today, a conversation with the museum director
0:28.0	about curating history in a politicized moment.
0:31.0	Plus, why air travel feels worse than ever?
0:37.0	What do you think it is about you that makes you someone who has that feeling of excitement
0:43.0	when you're able to read somebody's diary or see a collection of records that have been unearthed?
0:49.0	I think it's really an experience of understanding other people and what their humanity is.
0:57.0	Kevin Young is the new director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC.
1:07.0	He started this job in January, but he has had this long career in curation.
1:12.0	Kevin has worked with archives focused on the African American experience.
1:16.0	He's also a poet.
1:18.0	And as museums are opening back up, we wanted to talk to him about what it means to go to a museum
1:25.0	and to interact directly with history.
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