Lonnie Bunch contextualizes this fraught moment in America's racial narrative
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:47.9 | I'm Jonathan Capehart and this is Cape Up. Dr. Lonnie Bunch is the 14th Secretary of the |
| 0:53.3 | Smithsonian Institution. But he's the first African-American and first historian to lead it. |
| 0:59.6 | Thus, making him the perfect person to talk to you about this fraught moment in our nation's |
| 1:04.8 | racial narrative. Slavery may formally have ended in 1865, but its impact continues to this very day |
| 1:12.1 | and that we're all shaped by it. Dr. Bunch and I talk about Juneteenth, the importance of the 1619 |
| 1:19.2 | project. What we could learn from Germany when it comes to grappling with the darkest chapters |
| 1:23.4 | of the American story. Why he applauds the Black Lives Matter movement and the outspokenness |
| 1:28.6 | of the President and Vice President of the United States. We talk about a lot and you can hear it |
| 1:34.7 | all right now. |
| 1:46.0 | Secretary Lonnie Bunch, welcome back to the podcast. What a treat to be with you. Thank you for |
| 1:52.1 | having me. So in getting ready for this interview, which is probably our third or fourth, |
| 1:58.1 | but you were my seventh number seven interview on this podcast after it first launched five years |
| 2:08.5 | ago this August. Our interview was in September of 2016 before the opening of the National Museum |
| 2:15.2 | of African-American History and Culture of which you are the founding director. But a lot has |
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