← New Museum Ensures Black History is Part of the American Story

Barack Obama

By Derek T. Dingle | Published February 24, 2012 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

President Obama hopes when future generations visit the museum to "hear these songs of pain and progress and struggle and sacrifice" that they will not separate it from "the larger American story. I want them to see it as central—an important part of our shared story."

President Obama hopes when future generations visit the museum to “hear these songs of pain…

Photo: Lonnie C. Major