The Opening of the African American Museum | Black America Special

Black America’s special captures the details, ingenuity, and the history surrounding the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Viewers will learn more about what went into creating the space that some are calling a gift to the country and a dream come true.
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  • @IntuitiveTracyNeely
    @IntuitiveTracyNeely2 ай бұрын

    This is fantastic! My family and I traveled from Georgia to visit the African American History Museum and to see my 17 year old Black son experience the museum was priceless. Thank you for this video!

  • @PatriciaNeeCreations
    @PatriciaNeeCreations8 ай бұрын

    This is amazing I love this love love, love, love, love, love, love love love love love this POWERFUL BLACK-HISTORY 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇯🇲🇨🇦🇯🇲🇨🇦🇯🇲🇯🇲✊🏾💕✊🏾💕

  • @ellismims6014
    @ellismims60142 ай бұрын

    A beautiful and excellent place. As a Charter member, as a person from Selma Alabama, as a person who holds respect for God....may God bless this place. I am standing on the prayers of giants Thank you. Ellis L. Mins

  • @KOKAYI69
    @KOKAYI692 ай бұрын

    Human Rights includes the whole world there are no boundaries!

  • @jeffreyyounger5772
    @jeffreyyounger57723 ай бұрын

    A beautiful and creative black history 😂🎉😢😮 museum 🖼️🎨, phenomenal!! Thank you!!

  • @WLOUIS1024
    @WLOUIS10244 жыл бұрын

    Awesome. The first shall be last and the last shall be first in the kingdom of heaven.

  • @harrietjohnson1930
    @harrietjohnson19302 ай бұрын

    I first visited this awesome museum in 2017. And I will visit again in 2024. There is so much to see, learn, process and feel. I feel such love and gratitude for our people and all we’ve overcome. We are magnificent human beings. I am a member of this museum. I want it to exist forever. Love, peace & blessings to everyone who visits or supports this museum. 💞

  • @shottabwoi3985
    @shottabwoi39852 ай бұрын

    And yall should KNOW,,,,,,, ROSA WASN'T THE FIRST ONE! She was the 'light' one! 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 #classdissmissed 🫳🏾🎤

  • @brooklynbabydoll718
    @brooklynbabydoll7183 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful moment in American history, we deserve all of these accolades. I can’t wait until I can see this museum in person.

  • @carlettagoodrich-mann1377
    @carlettagoodrich-mann13772 ай бұрын

    Thanks Jeff and the MD police. Black operatives. My private tour was a grand gesture.

  • @suga022
    @suga022 Жыл бұрын

    Got emotional watching this journey of the museum, people and the ones in the past that endured a life worst than cattle. There were white monsters that didn’t feel an ounce of humanity! I also appreciate that there were some humane white men that made the dream of white people come through. For the abolishing of slavery and discrimination and also for making this museum happen.

  • @emmanuel6162
    @emmanuel61623 жыл бұрын

    Tears rolling down my eyes as i watch and relate this history full of imagination what my ancestors went through..Thank you all in my century who made this dream come through, i hope to visit America someday and step into this magnificent building of History

  • @keithwilliams1243

    @keithwilliams1243

    Жыл бұрын

    It was your ancesters who enslaved your other ancesters in the first place. This is NOT a magnificant building of history, it is a portal of Marxist propoganda.

  • @yasmingumbs433

    @yasmingumbs433

    13 күн бұрын

    11:48

  • @connieclinton3917
    @connieclinton39172 ай бұрын

    The building is so beauitful.🖤❤️💚👑

  • @peaceatheart101
    @peaceatheart1013 ай бұрын

    I've always wanted to visit this Museum! Thank you for the presentation. I will be intentional in planning to go real soon! Excellent! ❤from NJ

  • @SylviaWongLewis
    @SylviaWongLewis7 жыл бұрын

    "Some said it could not be done. But, we did it." Congressman John Lewis. Excellent film. Kudos to Carol Jenkins and talented team at CUNY TV!

  • @pdhoggardable
    @pdhoggardable9 ай бұрын

    I would like bridges of information between Native American, African American and Hispanic American museums sharing historical documents of British,French,Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese domination.

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you🙏 I will watch it later

  • @deborahsantiago5718
    @deborahsantiago57183 ай бұрын

    Every white politician needs to visit this and then find a way to put this in a curriculum in schools in the South!! Closed minds & hearts need an awakening!!! This may not be popular but it could wake up young folk blinded by hate taught in their homes~ 🙏🏾🙌🏾

  • @mmccormack8764
    @mmccormack87646 жыл бұрын

    Omg! Wonderful! I am covered in goose bumps,after every speech,only my late dad singing ever did that to me

  • @miss.pinkpanther

    @miss.pinkpanther

    2 ай бұрын

    His presence...

  • @pdhoggardable
    @pdhoggardable9 ай бұрын

    Cool🎉

  • @waynegreen4964
    @waynegreen49643 ай бұрын

    WOW!

  • @scherriem0325
    @scherriem03253 жыл бұрын

    Simply Phenomenal & Emotionally Uplifting to watch years later in honor of Juneteenth-June 19, 1865. So much culture, richness, beauty, talet, and educated African Americans who paved the way for us today! 🙏🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏼

  • @tinadaugherty9073
    @tinadaugherty90733 жыл бұрын

    The time has come, that we all admit, that "Black Lives Matter" and here is something I am proud to see on video , knowing what I grew up in the 60's of being told I was different in my thoughts and deep in my heart.

  • @honkhonk8009

    @honkhonk8009

    2 жыл бұрын

    Country was built by immigrants, which is what makes it great. If my parents were from Ethiopia, it makes me no different from someone whos parents were from Germany. Alot of people from Europe immigrated to the country during the 20th century.

  • @chrisgriffin7357

    @chrisgriffin7357

    Жыл бұрын

    Why would they matter to me, I'm not black. I wouldn't expect White lives to matter to you and whine about your indifference to them.

  • @kojoman75
    @kojoman752 жыл бұрын

    I am a Korean War veteran (1950/54) artist, author, and freelance-photographer who was spared to witness the grand opening of the our nations largest African American museum;

  • @ama-vk5sf
    @ama-vk5sf3 жыл бұрын

    I must go here!!! Much love from NY

  • @curbsideseat9794
    @curbsideseat97943 жыл бұрын

    ♥️THANK YOU!♥️

  • @kpoLove
    @kpoLove3 жыл бұрын

    Great work. I would love to go there one day.

  • @rbentrada5839
    @rbentrada58397 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Amazing! Beautiful!

  • @emo-simp-9629
    @emo-simp-96293 жыл бұрын

    This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

  • @mim4532
    @mim45322 ай бұрын

    Hope that one day i can be able to make thé trip to th USA to visit this great museum. Just to make connection between black history in Martinique and USA;

  • @tonyj59
    @tonyj593 жыл бұрын

    this is wonderful! through all the pain and suffering america has keep it promises... to build a more perfect Union.... thank you... Abraham Lincoln is smiling down on America..Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in is our greatest achievement..

  • @chrisgriffin7357

    @chrisgriffin7357

    Жыл бұрын

    Lincoln was planning on shipping all the blacks out until that idiot, Booth, shot him and destroyed America by keeping y'all here to make our cities virtual no-go zones

  • @pdhoggardable

    @pdhoggardable

    9 ай бұрын

    Story of a people in a struggle for decency and respect. Paraphrase John Lewis

  • @revivalworship
    @revivalworship7 жыл бұрын

    Great. So well done. Thank you.

  • @Cyndi72
    @Cyndi722 жыл бұрын

    There is so much missing in that museum.So many people left out.

  • @teresawicks-kq3bq

    @teresawicks-kq3bq

    3 ай бұрын

    They couldn't put everything in the museum 😊

  • @harrietjohnson1930

    @harrietjohnson1930

    2 ай бұрын

    The exhibitions change. Also contact the museum and share your thoughts. Let them hear from you.

  • @user-tu1uc5tn4p
    @user-tu1uc5tn4p3 ай бұрын

    3:37

  • @mule5150
    @mule51504 жыл бұрын

    5 biskits ........"only LOVE can conquer HATE" .............marvin gaye ........

  • @lionmarljam5456
    @lionmarljam54562 ай бұрын

    Advancement.

  • @pdhoggardable
    @pdhoggardable9 ай бұрын

    Ignorance has never been bliss.

  • @learningtime8544
    @learningtime85443 жыл бұрын

    Get ready to go home, True Israel! Prepare to leave the Land of Your captivity. The Most High will soon return you to your correct home: The Promised Land of Sub-Sarahan Africa. Do not be bamboozled to love the land of your captivity while your captors continue to steal the treasures of you True Homeland.

  • @marydavis7978

    @marydavis7978

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're right! Black people are easily bamboozled!

  • @tonyarichelle8380
    @tonyarichelle83805 жыл бұрын

    A bone.....

  • @charlessmith263
    @charlessmith2632 жыл бұрын

    Why was MLK so hated in 1968?

  • @yasmingumbs433
    @yasmingumbs43313 күн бұрын

    9:16

  • @Bababdebooey
    @Bababdebooey2 жыл бұрын

    eyesore

  • @shottabwoi3985
    @shottabwoi39852 ай бұрын

    So NOW I understand where the design came from. A NIGERIAN YOURUBA CULTURE!! 😳 GOD IS NOT PLEASED! #classdissmissed 🫳🏾🎤

  • @paulad574
    @paulad574Ай бұрын

    You can't talk about our history with our Africa! Without our amazing genius who took our show on our road! That is why they dragged us here! That is such a problem not to rever our true history in this museum! Our history did not begin with slavery, it began with the pyramids and Medu Ntr and the Pyramid! That is why we cannot rise to our hightest potential! like a slingshot we must go all the way back and we will go all the way forward when we do. Recognize Culture! Obama left our men in jail while he spoke! Too many hypocrits were there! It is time we really wake up and tell the whole truth and notHing about the truth! OUR MOTHER AND FATHER AFRICA MUST BE RECOGNIZED! IT MAKEs WHITE PEOPLE FEEL SAFE! Not til our reparations are given! Where is the hope without our reparations that so deserve! The hypocrisy screams out! REPARATIONS MATTER NOW!!!

  • @kenyahalaiyah1431
    @kenyahalaiyah14314 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful, well put together video. You so called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Indians are the biblical JEWS, the Israelites the bible speaks of. You are the people of the book, clearly you're above all people. This is a building that shows that. But continue to come together as a people and learn biblically who you are and what God requires of you. Keep his laws and live. Deuteronomy 7:6 6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Matthew 5:14-14 KJV 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. www.israelunite.org

  • @melonie_peppers

    @melonie_peppers

    2 жыл бұрын

    The world doesn't revolve around America. There's other people. What about the Samoans? The Turks? Chinese?

  • @honkhonk8009

    @honkhonk8009

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@melonie_peppers dont even question it bruh. the interpretation sounds wierd asf lol

  • @Watkinsstudio

    @Watkinsstudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@melonie_peppers Let them build their own museums.

  • @KOKAYI69
    @KOKAYI692 ай бұрын

    *Africans not Slavs! enslaved Africans n America Caribbean South America etc!

  • @miss.pinkpanther
    @miss.pinkpanther2 ай бұрын

    It's about black history, not the envolvment of the evil that was perpetrated on a people... Step back and give God's people theirs, you don't have enough already, I'm referring to the second speaker...

  • @mannypakyaw3773
    @mannypakyaw37732 жыл бұрын

    That structure (African Museum) should not have been placed in that location. The view of the surroundings was obstructed.

  • @Watkinsstudio

    @Watkinsstudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is fine where it is. A perfect spot.

  • @paulaannstewartTHANKFUL2024
    @paulaannstewartTHANKFUL20245 жыл бұрын

    It is so obvious to me that this building was designed by men.

  • @KingEst87
    @KingEst873 жыл бұрын

    It was Weak ! Basic kiddy knowledge it’s like it was made for if your not black to come and learn the PG -13 version of black history

  • @ronturner1345
    @ronturner134510 ай бұрын

    I would never visit these museums They start history with Europe Your history is cut out

  • @oxalek8220
    @oxalek82204 жыл бұрын

    Why does it look like a wastebasket? Terrible design.

  • @arabakoleman1132

    @arabakoleman1132

    4 жыл бұрын

    it’s indeed a matter of perception.did you hear anything about the architectural design ? I guess not.

  • @politereminder6284

    @politereminder6284

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's iconic and beautiful

  • @sekoukelleh1003

    @sekoukelleh1003

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a pyramid upside-down

  • @Watkinsstudio

    @Watkinsstudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great looking building. Stands out among all the boring Greek pastiche designs.

  • @carmenjones8887

    @carmenjones8887

    3 ай бұрын

    You see, the waste paper basket-designs to which you are referencing were copied from the iron-artisans that originally created these types of designs.

  • @MafaeJamie
    @MafaeJamie Жыл бұрын

    change the name to black american museum

  • @user-ok1yh7ze4w
    @user-ok1yh7ze4w2 ай бұрын

    There is no such people ! And we did not fight for that ! We have never gotten any thing we begged , or asked for ! Who did we fight for this?

  • @shottabwoi3985
    @shottabwoi39852 ай бұрын

    REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY NOW! They done paid Afghanistan, Ukraine, Isreal, and STILL give the Jewish community 35 MILLION a year in the national budget! #digdeep 🫳🏾🎤