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In honor of Black History Month, all February,

this podcast will be dedicated to featuring African Americans

whose voices and perspectives you need to hear.

We'll have a new episode every Tuesday, but if you're a fan of the podcast, you know we feature prominent black voices all year long.

So we've chosen a few older episodes to republish every Thursday to reacquaint you with some of it.

This week, Dr. Lonnie Bunge, founding director of that jewel on the National Mall,

the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lonnie Bunch, thank you. of African American history and culture.

Lani Bunch, thank you so much for being on Cape Up and having us in your fabulous new museum. Thank you. Welcome.

How does it feel to finally have this day here with the museum opening?

It is unbelievably humbling because so many people contributed to this and that in many ways I always knew this day would happen but that's because

I'm good at fooling myself.

But how many years did it take?

It took more than 10 years to... Well it's taken 11 years since I started and so

that's when the whole process began but so therefore it's been the longest time you could

ask people to keep working on something until they see the fruits of their labor.

Now let's talk about the museum itself. Back in 2012, you told the Washington Post,

I want people to realize this is who we are as

Americans. I'm not creating an African American museum just for African Americans.

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