Lonnie Bunch And The 'Museum Of No'

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Blacksonian — er, the National Museum of African American History and Culture — was years and years in the making. It's closed down because of the coronavirus, but we got a virtual tour from the man who devoted his life to giving it life. He's also the first Black leader of the entire Smithsonian Institution. Baller status.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, special request coming your way. We've got something in the works and we need your help.
0:04.8	So, if you are from Philadelphia or if you live in Philly or if you have questions about the city of the Liberty Bell,
0:15.2	we want to hear from you. Send us your questions about race, right? Did I get the nickname right there?
0:22.6	The disrespect, the disrespect. So it's not the city of the Liberty Bell.
0:26.4	Oh, it's the city of brotherly love. It's the 215, the illa delf, 21 pound.
0:33.3	We want questions about race from people who grew up in Philly like you was truly.
0:37.5	Who currently live in Philly or are simply curious about the city. That gave us
0:42.4	Teddy Pentegrasse and Paddy LaBelle and Tari Trata and Philly's Hymn and me, I guess.
0:50.0	Just got Joe's in there. Yeah, she's funny.
0:52.9	Yeah, and Kevin Bacon and Will Smith anyway.
0:57.2	Kevin Bacon. You think I was going to do that? I didn't.
1:00.1	Email us your questions at codeswitchatmpr.org with a subject line, race, and Philly. Simple.
1:08.4	Alrighty, onto the show.
1:14.4	I'm Shireen Madisoul Maraji. I'm Jean Zambi and this, this right here is this is codeswitch.
1:19.3	It is and it's from NPR. Jean, have you ever done something on a whim, on a complete whim
1:27.2	that changed the entire rest of your life?
1:31.0	Hmm, like, you know, choose one school over the other school.
1:34.0	Or, or like, holler at somebody on a subway just randomly. A beautiful,
1:38.9	afro woman on the A train and end up as a result getting a job with the New York Times.
1:44.0	Or what? Let somebody take your head shop or work even though, you know what I mean?
1:47.7	Well, they don't like photographs very much and you end up marrying that person.
1:52.5	I know that's just hypothetical.
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